[Commelin, Izaak]

Begin ende voortgangh, van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie : vervatende de voornaemste reysen, by de inwoonderen der selver provincien derwaerts gedaen ... : gedruckt in den Jare 1646 [The beginning and continuation of the Dutch East India Company:…], vol.2. ([Amsterdam? : s.n.], 1646)

The first volume of this two volume work contains accounts of voyages to the East Indies made before the Dutch East India Company was formed in 1602. The second volume contains details of the seventeenth century voyages made for the Company. The plate depicts the King of Pegu, in Burma, holding court with his great white elephants. Three more illustrations in this part of the volume are devoted to the white elephants, which fascinated Europeans. The voyage to Burma described in this part of the volume took place in November 1604 under Admiral Steven van der Hagen. Following the visit to Pegu, the voyage continued on to Ambon and Tidore in Maluku (Moluccan Islands), Eastern Indonesia.

This book belongs to the large Dutch East Indies collection held in Rare Books. Most of the collection dates from the nineteenth and early twentieth century and and its strengths are in economics and statistics, government, law, agriculture, mission history and civilisation. It is an extremely valuable research resource for the study of the history of Indonesia.

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