East and West Indian Mirror e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is of some importance to have established this, for neither the Latin edition, published at Leiden in 1619, nor the above-mentioned French edition of 1621 has the dedication to the states-general, signed by Joris von Speilbergenz - the former having in its stead a dedication by Geelkercken to Petrus Graef,' whilst the latter commences with the Preface to the Reader. This omission of Speilbergen's own dedication from two versions which would naturally be more generally consulted by posterity than one in Dutch was to be deplored, for a Sight of that document - so very emphatic in its language as to authorship - would have precluded the possibility of the error above alluded to taking root.