Author: DANISH ASIATIC COMPANY.
Title: Brief van een koopman, uit Rotterdam, aan zynen vriend, te Amsterdam. Behelzende eenige aanmerkingen, zo over de negotiation binnen deeze provincien, ten behoeve van vreemde vorsten en particulieren ondernomen: als wel byzonder, ten opzigte der negociatie, die voor reekening van de Geoctroyeerde Deensche Asiatische Compagnie te Coppenhagen, ook thans aan het publicq word aangeboden.
Description: Amsterdam, J. Groenewoud etc., (1779). 22 pp. Letter from an Amsterdam merchant about the Danish Asiatic Company (Danish: Asiatisk Kompagni) , a Danish trading company established in 1730 to revive Danish trade on the Danish East Indies and China following the closure of the Danish East India Company. It was granted a 40-year monopoly on Danish trade on Asia in 1732 and taken over by the Danish government in 1772. It was headquartered at Asiatisk Plads in Copenhagen. Its former premises are now used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1772, the company lost its monopoly and in 1779, Danish India became a crown colony. Knuttel 19331.

Keywords: Asia India VOC Dutch East India Company