![[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)]. Description de l'Amérique & des parties d'icelle, comme de la Nouvelle France, Floride, des Antilles, Iucaya, Cuba, Iamaica, &c. Amsterdam: Jean Evertz Cloppenburch, 1619.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYR/2001_NYR_09806_0181_000(034557).jpg?w=1)
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[LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)]. Description de l'Amérique & des parties d'icelle, comme de la Nouvelle France, Floride, des Antilles, Iucaya, Cuba, Iamaica, &c. Amsterdam: Jean Evertz Cloppenburch, 1619.
2o (310 x 193 mm). Engraved vignette on title. Engraved folding map (library blindstamp in lower right corner, a few small splits along folds). (Title with blindstamp, some light browning and spotting, single marginal wormhole.) 18th-century calf-backed boards (spine worn and chipped, hinges weak).
First edition in French of Linschoten's description of America. This important text originally appeared in part III of the first edition in Dutch published by Claesz in 1595-96. Sabin calls Linschoten's complete history an "inestimable book, a treasure of all the learning respecting the East and West Indies." The Itinerario is one of the most important early travel books, apparently used by ships sailing to India from Holland. It includes accurate sailing directions to the East Indies and many translations of Spanish and Portuguese documents on geography. Jan Linschoten was in Goa in 1583-89, and travelled with Willem Barents in the Arctic in 1594-95. Cloppenburch also published a French translation of Le grand Routier in the same year. The large folding map is that of the Claesz first issue of 1596 (Phillips America, p.793). The present edition is exceedingly SCARCE, with no copies appearing in ABPC since 1945. JCB II, p.135; Sabin 41372.
2o (310 x 193 mm). Engraved vignette on title. Engraved folding map (library blindstamp in lower right corner, a few small splits along folds). (Title with blindstamp, some light browning and spotting, single marginal wormhole.) 18th-century calf-backed boards (spine worn and chipped, hinges weak).
First edition in French of Linschoten's description of America. This important text originally appeared in part III of the first edition in Dutch published by Claesz in 1595-96. Sabin calls Linschoten's complete history an "inestimable book, a treasure of all the learning respecting the East and West Indies." The Itinerario is one of the most important early travel books, apparently used by ships sailing to India from Holland. It includes accurate sailing directions to the East Indies and many translations of Spanish and Portuguese documents on geography. Jan Linschoten was in Goa in 1583-89, and travelled with Willem Barents in the Arctic in 1594-95. Cloppenburch also published a French translation of Le grand Routier in the same year. The large folding map is that of the Claesz first issue of 1596 (Phillips America, p.793). The present edition is exceedingly SCARCE, with no copies appearing in ABPC since 1945. JCB II, p.135; Sabin 41372.
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