Wassenaer, Nicholaes van:

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HISTORISCH VERHAEL ALDER GHEDENCH-WEERDICHSTE GESCHIEDENISSEN DIE HIER EN DAER IN EUROPA.... This important Dutch newsletter contains a wealth of information concerning Dutch activities overseas, including in New Netherland, raids in the Caribbean, the Dutch venture in Brazil, the slave trade with Africa, and the activities of the Dutch in the Far East and Asia. The title, translated literally, means "Historical Account of all the most Remarkable Events which have happened in Europe." It is indeed an important early European newsletter, but substantial parts of each number are concerned with the Dutch overseas empire in its heyday.The newsletter was conceived and written by Nicholaes van Wassenaer, who issued the first number in 1622 and produced the first seventeen numbers biannually until his death in 1630. Barent Lampe then took over the publication and issued the second number in 1630; but publication sputtered, and the three final numbers appeared in 1632, 1633, and 1635. The parts have generally been treated as a set by bibliographers, but EUROPEAN AMERICANA is certainly correct in stating that each individual number has integrity of its own, with separate title and pagination, and goes on to list each of the twenty-one numbers separately. Complete sets are, not surprisingly, of the greatest rarity. Even individual numbers surface only occasionally.The New Netherland segment of Wassenaer is extensive and is best understood from the excerpts offered in Narratives of New

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