Memoires de Jean de Wit, grand pensionnaire de Hollande
By: Traduits de l'original en François. Par Monsr. de ***
Contributors: Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672; Zoutelande-Lindenaer, Johanna Dorothea van, 1664-1737
Publisher: Chez Erasme Kinkius.
Published: 1709
Place of publication: Ratisbonne [i.e. The Hague]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Whaling; Cod fisheries; Salt industry and trade; Puritans; Economic conditions; Foreign relations; Commerce
Work titles: Aanwijsing der heilsame politieke gronden en Maximen van de republieke van Holland
Notes: Attributed to Pieter de la Court by Winkler Prins' encyclopaedie.

A translation, by Madame Johanna Dorothea van Zoutelande-Lindenaer, of parts of the author's: Aanwijsing der heilsame politieke gronden en Maximen van de republieke van Holland, first printed Leiden and Rotterdam, 1669, which was an enlarged version of the author's Interest van Holland, first printed Amsterdam, 1662. Johan de Witt probably wrote two chapters of the memoires. Cf. Winkler Prins' geïllustreerde encyclopaedie.

Also printed in French in the Hague by H. van Bulderen in the same year.

Includes references to commerce in the West Indies, the whale and cod fisheries, the salt trade, and Puritans in the English colonies.

Signatures: *¹² (-*12) (*1 verso blank) **¹² A-Q¹² (Q11, Q12 blank)

Title page printed in red and black; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 709/39.