Excerpt from A Catalogue of Rare Dutch Pamphlets Relating to New-Netherland and to the Dutch West-and East-India Companies and to Its Possessions in Brazil, Angolo, Etc: Together With Some Pamphlets on Early Dutch and Foreign Navigation and Commerce; Which Will Be Sold by Auction on Thursday, 15th of June, 1911 When Mr. Asher in 1867 published his Bibliographical and Historical Essay containing the titles of 357 pamphlets bearing on the history of new-nether land, the west-india Company etc., he had examined more than 27000 pamphlets, which all had been published between 1600-1664, the period of the rise, the decline and fall of the Company which founded new-netherland, and whose history is therefore so much valued by the student of early American History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.