Abstract
This article traces the career of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (Old and New East Indies, 1724-1726) by François Valentyn during the nineteenth century. Valentyn’s multivolume work on the Dutch East India Company’s trading area continued to be used until the middle of the nineteenth century, when the Dutch colonial empire in Asia was reduced to the Indonesian archipelago. During this period, it served as an important frame of reference for the development of the colonial policy in the East Indies and as a source of inspiration for new publications on colonial Indonesia in the Netherlands. It only lost its value when more up-to-date works were published and reservations about the way the work was written increased, such as the unsatisfactory manner in which the information it contained was accounted for.
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