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Excerpt from Willem Usselinx: Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies As to books, contemporary or more recent, I have not knowingly neglected any, in any of the libraries hereafter mentioned, which might give me information concerning Usselinx or those portions of the history of his times which I needed to know. In the case of certain books not obtain able in this country, transcripts of the desired passages have been made for me, especially by the kind care of Messrs. Frederik Muller and Company, of Amsterdam. With the ex ception of these cases, all references have been made at first hand, except that once or twice a friend has verified for me a reference to a book which I had previously examined, but needed to consult anew on some detail for I have had to examine these widely scattered books when I could. I have not thought it worth while to include a bibliography of such books. Such lists of authorities consulted are of little real utility in such a book; the references in footnotes suffice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... and 47 respectively. Of the first, second, and fourth of them in the reprint, he says, in the passage (p. 85) already referred to: "As far as we know, these are the only remains of the existence of these pamphlets, which are now neither rare nor unique, but absolutely and totally lost." As will have been seen, I have had the good fortune to find that there are in the Royal Library at Stockholm copies of the original editions of all four. But, as the notes appended in the case of each will have shown, they contain virtually no new material; for they are, with but slight exceptions, merely separate issues of parts of the Argonautica, which Marquardus added to his reprint of the latter in ignorance or carelessness of the fact that he was thus repeating. ii.--writings not pr1nted. Under this head are included writings of Usselinx not printed by him or in his lifetime. In designating the copies of some of them at Albany I have used the notation of a provisional calendar of them which I left-there after concluding my examination of them. Excepting these fifteen (eleven of which are printed in Van Rees), and Nos. 3, 67, and 70, all the following are described from copies in'my own possession. In a few cases, it will be seen, there may be a doubt of authorship; I have had only copies by which to decide. 1. A brief memorial or request to the States General; undated, but of about the year 1617. Rijksarchief, Hague. 2. A brief memorial or request to the States of Holland; undated, but of about the autumn of 1617. Rijksarchief, Hague. 3. The draft of a charter prepared by Usselinx. 1619. Rijksarchief, Hague. Printed by O. van Rees, Geschiedenis der Staathuishoudkunde in Nederland tot het Einde der achttiende Eeuw, ii., pp. 384-408. 4. Corte...
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