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[Arnoldus MONTANUS (1625?-1683)]
Die Unbekante Neue Welt. Translated from Dutch by O. Dapper. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1673. 2 (310 x 203mm). Title in red and black. Engraved title, headpiece, 70 half-page illustrations (those on G3v and M2v pasted over incorrect earlier images), 54 plates, views, maps and portraits (comprising 1 folding map; 15 double-page maps; 2 folding views; 29 double-page views; 6 portraits and 1 double-page plate). (The 28th plate apparently inserted from another copy [a double-page view of Cartagena bound between 2R4 and 2S1], some browning to text and about 13 plates.) Old speckled calf, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat decoration (slightly scaffed, small splits to spine).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN: "THE GERMAN TRANSLATION IS MUCH SCARCER THAN THE DUTCH ORIGINAL." (Sabin). "Asher [in his Biographical Essay] says that he had met with only one copy in the Netherlands, viz. that in the Royal Library of the Hague. This publication is, besides, a specimen of the most impudent plagiarism, the translator O.Dapper calling himself the author and concealing the real author's name" (Sabin). The first edition was published in Amsterdam in 1671, Ogilby published an English translation, in London, in the same year.
The fine plates and illustrations include maps and views of games, festivals, occupations, battles, religious rites, cannibalism. habitations, manners and customs of the indigenous peoples. The most famous illustration is what Asher called "the handsomest, and at the same time the most agreeable view of Dutch New York": a fine half-page sea to land view of the city, on S4r. Cf. Church 613 (1st edition); Sabin 50087.
Die Unbekante Neue Welt. Translated from Dutch by O. Dapper. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1673. 2 (310 x 203mm). Title in red and black. Engraved title, headpiece, 70 half-page illustrations (those on G3
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN: "THE GERMAN TRANSLATION IS MUCH SCARCER THAN THE DUTCH ORIGINAL." (Sabin). "Asher [in his Biographical Essay] says that he had met with only one copy in the Netherlands, viz. that in the Royal Library of the Hague. This publication is, besides, a specimen of the most impudent plagiarism, the translator O.Dapper calling himself the author and concealing the real author's name" (Sabin). The first edition was published in Amsterdam in 1671, Ogilby published an English translation, in London, in the same year.
The fine plates and illustrations include maps and views of games, festivals, occupations, battles, religious rites, cannibalism. habitations, manners and customs of the indigenous peoples. The most famous illustration is what Asher called "the handsomest, and at the same time the most agreeable view of Dutch New York": a fine half-page sea to land view of the city, on S4