Vrijmoedige gedachten over Neérlands Indië en over de regering van den Gouverneur-Generaal van der Capellen.

8vo: [4]-xvi-314 pp. (some very min. soiling, square cut out of last bl. leaf).

Sewn, contemp. wr. (spine sl. def.). Uncut copy.

First and only edition of this critical work by J.E. Doornik (1777-1837) on the colonial government in the Dutch East Indies under the command of Godert der Capellen. Doornik became a physician in Amsterdam and went to the Dutch Indies in 1817 where he became a surgeon in 1820. Afterwards he had his own practice in Batavia, but due to the publication of his "Vrijmoedige gedachten" he had to leave in 1827.
Ref. Saalmink, p. 525.