CORNELIS DE VON HOUTMAN.

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CORNELIS DE VON HOUTMAN.

Journal du Voyage de l'Inde Orientale, faict per les navires Hollandoises [bound with] Appentis ou Journal du Voyage des Navires d'Hollande à Java. Middleburg: for Bernard Langenes, 1598. Oblong 4° (17 x 25cm). 2 engraved titles, 11 engraved plates, 5 engraved maps in text, woodcut illustrations, ornamental initials. (10 leaves discreetly rehinged and remargined, touching image on first title, light soiling). Old vellum (rebound, recased).
A rare work; an account of the first Dutch voyages to Java and Sumatra, first published in 1597, issued again in 1598, both in French and Latin. All editions are rare. Alden 598.48. (Latin edition).
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