The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)

The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)
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Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Total Pages : 832
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ISBN-10 : 9789087041519
ISBN-13 : 9087041519
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Book Synopsis The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789) by : Alexander J. P. Raat

Download or read book The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789) written by Alexander J. P. Raat and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2010 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details Loten's personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem -- a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, cover early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic, the exotic Dutch East Indies, and cosmopolitan London in the latter part of the century.


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