[Maritime history. Interleaved copy] Ordonnantie van assurantie en avaryen

der stad Amsterdam. Amsterdam, S. Lamsveld and P. Schouten, 1744 (but with additions up to 1756), (2),80,(1) p., 12mo, interleaved with the same amount of pages in folio, 25 of those pages with manuscript annotations (remainder blank) concerning the juxtaposed articles in the booklet, applied to real assurance cases, with many names of people involved and the (Dutch East India Company) ships, sums of money and dates 1765-1776, contemp. limp boards, folio.

PiCarta only lists variants with fewer pages and (as can be seen in the digitised copies) with a typographically different title p. The booklet, signed in letterpress by N. Geelvinck de Jonge (1756) and H. Bicker (1744) at the end, lists 55 articles on maritime insurance law. The manuscript annotations could be an important source of information about the insurance side of lost or damaged ships, in addition to the manuscript "Averijgrossen" (1700-1810) kept at the Stadsarchief Amsterdam. The manuscript starts with the annotation "Notitie van stukken (...) inde saak van David Valentijn (...) Toonder (...). P. v.d. Broeke en Zoon, per procuratie van de Assurantie Compagnie te Middelburg (...)". The first ship mentioned is the V.O.C. ship "Vreedejaar", built in 1769 for the chamber of Enkhuizen, of which the skipper was Ary Arkebout, who is also mentioned in our manuscript. This large ship (crew of 221 men) went missing in 1771 between Patria and the Cape of Good Hope. Its destination was Canton (source: De VOCsite). Apparently, the owner of the ship was David Valentijn. Other ships mentioned include "El Pulido" (captain Pedro de la Villa, with loosely inserted text by Johan van Soestdijk) and the ship "De Hengelaar" (skipper Teunis Claasen).