WIC/VOC -- PROJECT EN CONSIDERATIEN van Bewinthebberen van de generale geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie, op, en volgens welke de gantsche West-Indische Compagnie met alle hare Landen, Forten (…), aan de Oost-Indische Compagnie soude werden overgegeven (…). (N.pl., n.pr., n.d., c. 1710). 8 pp. Narrow-4°. No bind. (Inner blank margin partly cut, slight oxidation marks from former paperclips visible).
This rare and significant early 18th-century pamphlet presents a formal proposal by directors (bewindhebberen) of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) regarding the transfer of all the Company’s colonial possessions, forts, privileges, and trading rights (including those related to the Atlantic slave trade), to the Dutch East India Company (VOC).€ 300