History of the Dutch Sea Service, Part I (Global Navies Classics) (Dutch Edition)
Language: Dutch
Published by Warships and Navies, 2026
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- History of the Dutch Sea Service, Part I (Global Navies Classics) (Dutch Edition)
- Author
- De Jonge, J C
- Publisher
- Warships and Navies
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Dutch
- ISBN 10
- 1608888711
- ISBN 13
- 9781608888719
History of the Dutch Sea Service, Part I: Deel 1, stuk 1. This bilingual Warships & Navies edition preserves 409 original-language facsimile pages from Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen, then frames the volume in English for collectors, researchers, and naval-history readers. This volume restores an important segment of Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen, one of the major documentary works in non-English naval historiography.
It also provides scholarly back-of-book indexes of persons, places, events, and ships, turning the facsimile into a practical research tool for tracing actors, theaters, campaigns, and vessels.
This edition also includes Most Important Passages Translated, a curated set of twenty substantial excerpts rendered into modern English with a trace of period flavor, so readers can enter Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen through its decisive scenes, arguments, and descriptions before or alongside the facsimile.
History of the Dutch Sea Service, Part I, drawn from Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen, is worth keeping in circulation because it preserves a serious documentary treatment of the early formation of Dutch maritime strength, before and during the struggle that produced the Dutch Republic and its sea service. In English-language publishing, that territory is still thinly held. Important works survive in library scans or specialist reference lists, yet remain practically invisible to the broader circle of readers who would value them. This edition exists to close that gap without flattening the original book into a modern paraphrase.
We expect the book to matter most to students of the Anglo-Dutch world, North Sea warfare, republics at war, and the administrative machinery behind early modern sea power. For that readership, the attraction is not novelty for its own sake but access to a work that still carries archival density, historiographical personality, and shelf-worthy physical presence. The value of a facsimile classic lies in the encounter with the book as book: its original language, pacing, typography, and sense of documentary weight. That encounter is part of the intellectual experience, not an obstacle to it.
Our editorial choices follow that principle. The facsimile core remains intact in the original language and preserves approximately 409 source pages. Instead of substituting reset translation, we add English framing matter that helps the reader understand what kind of work this is, where it sits in naval history, and how to move through it intelligently. The goal is guidance, not replacement: enough apparatus to open the book, but not so much intervention that the source disappears.
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