Anonymous pamphlet urging the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (WIC) to merge and form a single company. The VOC, established in 1602, was a Dutch trade organization with a monopoly on the overseas trade between the Dutch Republic and the Dutch East Indies, including Persia, the southeast coast of India and Ceylon. The Dutch WIC was established in 1621 and had a monopoly on all trade and shipping on the east coast of Africa and in the Americas.
The author remains anonymous but the publisher Lieven de Lange also remains somewhat mysterious and may be fictitious (as Knuttel supposes). We know the name only from the imprints of three pamphlets: the present and a related one from the same year in The Hague (the related one explicitly saying it is printed for him, while the present one merely says [sold or published] by him), and the third at Amsterdam in 1652 concerning relations between England and the Dutch Republic (explicitly saying it was printed by him).
From the collection of prof. dr. Willy L. Braekman (1931-2006), although without his bookplate. Blue paper on the boards slightly discoloured, leaves very slightly browned, with a small stain on the title-page and a very minor stain on the last leaf, otherwise in very good condition. Asher 193; Knuttel 5123; Landwehr VOC 65; Sabin 57376; STCN (8 copies); Tiele 2942; not in Doorninck.