Lot 94
94
A Collection of Voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade and navigation. Containing an account of several attempts to find out the North-East Passage, and their discoveries in the East-Indies, and the South Seas, London: for W. Freeman [and others], 1703, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 10 engraved maps, most folding, contemporary panelled calf (upper joint split, slight surface worming to lower cover). [Sabin 14401]

Details
A Collection of Voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade and navigation. Containing an account of several attempts to find out the North-East Passage, and their discoveries in the East-Indies, and the South Seas, London: for W. Freeman [and others], 1703, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 10 engraved maps, most folding, contemporary panelled calf (upper joint split, slight surface worming to lower cover). [Sabin 14401]

Lot Essay

A translation of the first volume of Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l 'établissement et aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, itself a translation and adaptation by René Augustin Constantin de Renneville of Isaak Commelin's Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie.

More from MAPS, ATLASES, TRAVEL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, NATURAL HISTORY

View All
View All