Zee, Y. Van Der (voorwoord) - Van Diemens Roode Vlucht. Roman Uit Het Hollandsche Koloniale Verleden. [eerste Druk/first Edition].

Deventer, Van Hoeve, [..], 1944. Original clothbacked boards, black coloured coat-of-arms on front boards, title on spine, dustjacket. 363pp. Full-page plan of Batavia under siege by Mataram, 1619, with legenda, another full-page plan of Batavia in 1628 with legenda, explanations to malay words and expressions at tail-margins, genealogical explanation to book-title, list of sources consulted, extensive chronology to life and work of Antonio Van Diemen, biographical data to historical figures appearing in text, table of contents on verso of final page. [Bouwers van Indië, II]. Well annotated and documented historical biographical novel describing the career of Antonio van Diemen, 1596-1645, servant to the Dutch East India Company, V.O.C. under Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of dutch colonial Indonesia in the first half of the seventeenth century, incl. i.a. a description of the Siege of Batavia by Mataram, 1619, consolidating company's rule over Indonesia. Good copy. (some occasional light fraying to extremities of dustjacket, some minor tears skilfully restored).