An impartial vindication of the English East-India-Company, from the unjust and slanderous imputations cast upon them in a treatise intituled, a justification of the directors of the Netherlands East-India Company

London: J. Richardson for Samuel Titmarsh, 1688. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown calf, marbled boards rebacked. Near fine. 6, 223, [1]. 81, [1], 34 pages. 18 x 12 cm. The anonymous author of this work attempts to refute the "slanderous imputations" of the work Justification of the Directors of the Netherlands East-India Company (reprinted here in full, with a separate title, following page 223). He proclaims that it is "such a tedious rhapsody of fictitious, fallacious inferences and arguments confusedly mixt with some distorted truths spun out... that it would be tiresome to the reader to trace all the prevarication's, mis-recitals and (truncated) sophistry contained in it. [I] shall proceed to detect his willful mistakes by which he endeavours to honest many injurious and insolent violations of right done by the Dutch towards the English in India directly contrary to the Articles of Peace." KRESS 1675. WING. I90, J1259. Interior contents clean and bright. Raised bands, red leather spine label printed in gilt. (Inventory #: 24522)