First edition of a pamphlet on the sentence of the Dutch WIC merchant Isaac Coymans (1622-1673), who was convicted in 1662 to six years imprisonment in the Jan Roodenpoortstoren in Amsterdam. In service of the Dutch West Indian Company (WIC), Coymans "collaborated with two members of the Amsterdam vroedschap, Nicolaes Pancras and Hendrik Carloff, to establish a Glückstadter Africa Company. When Coymans schemed to involve the WIC in a war with Denmark in order to benefit this new enterprise and its backers, he found himself charged with treason. ... His supporters in the vroedschap saved him from the death penalty; he was however, condemned to six years in prison and eternal banishment" (Lindemann).
Slightly browned, otherwise in good condition. Knuttel 8644; Lindemann, The merchant republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg, p. 104; STCN (4 copies).