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WEST INDIA COMPANY CHARTER, WITH LARGE ENGR. DE JONGE ARMS
[WIC]. Octroy, by de Ho. Mo. Heeren Staten Generael, verleent aen de West-Indische Compagnie, in date den 3 Junii 1621.
[Amsterdam?], [Jan Jansz.?], [1651?]. Folio. A 10-page extract from a book (probably Isaac Commelin's Wilhelm en Maurits van Nassau) giving the text of the charter of the Dutch West India Company, with the large engraved coat of arms of the De Jong(h)e family (17 x 14.5 cm) pasted at the foot of the last page, and an engraved classical figure with military attributes pasted at the head of the first page. Further with 2 large (32 mm) woodcut decorated initial letters. Paste-paper wrappers in pink, purple, green and yellow (ca. 1800?).
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A ten-page extract containing the text of the charter of the Dutch West India Company (WIC), established in 1621 to further the interests of Dutch trade in the Americas. The large arms pasted below the text at the end match those of the families De Jong(h)e of Ghent and De Jonghe d'Ardoye of Brussels (barry, argent and azure, with 8 bars) and may perhaps allude to Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (1569-1632), a leading figure in the Dutch East India Company (VOC), or his descendents, or the WIC commander Jacob de Jonghe, who was stationed in Pomeroon (Guyana) in 1689. The running heads read "Maurits Prince van Orangien|Zijn Leven en Bedrijf" and these five leaves represent folios 3B3-3C3 of the book, probably [Isaac Commelin], Wilhelm en Maurits van Nassau, Amsterdam, J. Jansz., 1651. The title given above is taken from the drop-title on the second page; that on the first page the drop-title reads, "West-Indische Compagnie opghericht den 3 Junii 1621." The page numbers have been carefully modified (by scraping away some numbers and by pasting slips over others and over the three quire signatures, and the engravings cover the end of the previous and beginning of the following texts in the book. One woodcut initial (an arabesque A) is a mirror image copy of one used by Isaac Willemsz. Beeck; we have found none similar to the other (a D with vines and a seated figure of a human or ape).
In very good condition. A curious WIC extract, with a fine large engraved De Jonghe coat of arms.
