Author: ALEXANDER J.P. RAAT
Title: The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789). A personal history of a Dutch virtuoso
Description: Verloren b.v. uitgeverij. Hardback. Pp: 829. The Life of Joan Gideon Loten, the 'naturalist Governor of Ceylon', details his 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 ø to this day a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Lotenøs documents show us a virtuoso: a connoisseur and dilettante in natural philosophy. They give us a unique glimpse of his character and qualities, but also of his asthmatic sufferings and use of opium. Lotenøs writings, quoted extensively in this biography, take us from the early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic to the exotic Dutch East Indies and from there to the cosmopolitan London of the latter part of the century. ISBN: 9789087041519. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9789087041519
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Title: The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789). A personal history of a Dutch virtuoso
Description: Verloren b.v. uitgeverij. Hardback. Pp: 829. The Life of Joan Gideon Loten, the 'naturalist Governor of Ceylon', details his 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 ø to this day a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Lotenøs documents show us a virtuoso: a connoisseur and dilettante in natural philosophy. They give us a unique glimpse of his character and qualities, but also of his asthmatic sufferings and use of opium. Lotenøs writings, quoted extensively in this biography, take us from the early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic to the exotic Dutch East Indies and from there to the cosmopolitan London of the latter part of the century. ISBN: 9789087041519. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9789087041519
Price: EUR 45.00 = appr. US$ 48.91 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1618777
- Book number: 1618777
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