VALENTIJN, F. - Beschrijving van Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien. Vervattende een Naukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd...

"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give a comprehensive account in text and illustration, of the peoples, places, and natural history of Indonesia" (Bastin & Brommer).

Volume I, part I contains the preliminary matter plus the Philippines and Acapulco;
- volume I, part II covers the Moluccas;
- volume II and volume III, part 1 cover Amboina;
- volume III, part 2 covers Amboina, Celebes, Borneo, and Further India;
- volume IV, part 1 contains Java;
- volume IV, part 2 contains Java, Surratt, China, Formosa, and Valentijn's 1726 voyages;
- volume V, part 1 covers Coromandel, Persia, Malaya, Sumatra, and Ceylon;
- volume V, part 2 covers Malabar, Japan, Cape of Good Hope, and Mauritius.

The book is lavishly illustrated with 266 engraved plates and maps, most double-page or folding, some with several views, a few conjoined,