Beschrijving
Collection of works concerning Amsterdam mayor Nicolaas Witsen with lithograph portrait.
[1823}, extract from J. Scheltema, Mengelwerk, 131-170pp. no binding.
43-60pp. with lithograph portrait by Tresling, no binding
31pp. softcover paper binding
Utrecht, Kemink en Zoon, 1862, 48pp. original binding, front loose.
with two further printed documents: one page: een en ander uit de geschiedenis van Koffie (mentions Witsen) and funerary poems by P. Francius and Claas Bruin 3pp folded.
Nicolaes Witsen (8 May 1641 – 10 August 1717; Dutch: Nicolaas Witsen) was a Dutch statesman who was mayor of Amsterdam thirteen times, between 1682 and 1706. In 1693, he became administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). In 1689, he was extraordinary-ambassador to the English court and became Fellow of the Royal Society. In his free time, he was cartographer, maritime writer, and an authority on shipbuilding. His books on the subject are important sources on Dutch shipbuilding in the 17th century. Furthermore, he was an expert on Russian affairs. He was the first to describe Siberia, the Far East and Central Asia in his study Noord en Oost Tartarye [North and East Tartary
