SPEYK, J.C.J. VAN, Onuitgegeven brieven van den tot in den dood aan vaderland en koning getrouwen Held en Ridder J.C.J. van Speyk: belangrijke bijdragen, dienende tot opheldring en verbetering van hetgeen de Heer van Tonderen heeft gelieven te schrijven omtrent den persoon,

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Amsterdam, Schalekamp en Van de Grampel, 1832, 24 pages, library half cloth binding, library stamp on titlepage,Jan Carolus Josephus van Speijk, also written Van Speyk (31 January 1802 – 5 February 1831), was a Dutch naval lieutenant who became a hero in the Netherlands in 1831 for his opposition to the Belgian Revolution. He allegedly blew up his gunboat with its crew to prevent it being taken by the Belgian revolutionaries.