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JAN HUYGEN VAN LINSCHOTEN (1563-1611)
Navigatio ac itinerarium ... in orientalem sive lusitanorum indiam. The Hague: Albrecht Hendrickz. for the author and Cornelius Nicolaius, and sold by Gilles Elzevir, 1599. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (311 x 200mm). Engraved title vignettes. Full-page engraved illustration of dedicatee's arms, full-page engraved portrait, folding double-page engraved world map by Jan van Doetecum the younger after Petrus Plancius [Shirley Mapping of the World 187], 42 engraved double-page maps and plates [including a second of St Helena not listed in the 'Sequitur tabula'] by Baptista van Doetecum, Jan van Doetecum the younger, Arnold Florensz. van Langren, and Hendrik Florensz. van Langren, after Willem Barents, A.F. van Langren and Linschoten, 11 folding, woodcut initials. (Scattered light spotting, short clean tears on a few maps and plates, light, mainly marginal worming on gatherings B-C, bifolium *2.3 bound in reverse, small hole on C2, 2A1 supplied from a shorter copy.) Contemporary vellum, titled in a contemporary hand on the spine (vellum a little marked and cockled, endpapers replaced, block split).
FIRST LATIN EDITION. THE FIRST EDITION TO INCLUDE BARENTS'S MAP OF HIS VOYAGE AND THE REGIONS ADJACENT TO THE NORTH POLE. RARE. Linschoten, a Dutchman born in Delft, was in Goa between 1583 and 1589, and with Willem Barents on his second voyage to the Kara Sea in 1594-1595. These experiences were recorded in the present work, which was first published in Dutch (Amsterdam: 1595-1596), and contains the most comprehensive account of the East and West Indies available at the end of the sixteenth century; indeed, copies were 'given to each ship sailing from Holland to India' (Church 252, Amsterdam: 1595-1596 edition). As well as including important travel accounts taken from contemporary Portugese, Dutch and Spanish sources, it is the first work to include precise sailing instructions for the Indies and also includes an account of America. Its popularity was such that it was soon translated into other languages, and remained in print well into the seventeenth century.
This, the rare first Latin edition is an abridged translation of the first edition, to which the map of Barents's voyage has been added, and Arnold and Hendrik Florentsz. van Langen's copy of Plancius's 1594 world map replaced by Jan van Doetecum the younger's engraving of Plancius's 1594 map. ABPC records only one copy at auction since 1975. Adams L-735; Borba de Moraes (1983) pp.488-489; Brunet III, col.1091; Sabin 41366; Willems Les Elzevier 950.
Navigatio ac itinerarium ... in orientalem sive lusitanorum indiam. The Hague: Albrecht Hendrickz. for the author and Cornelius Nicolaius, and sold by Gilles Elzevir, 1599. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (311 x 200mm). Engraved title vignettes. Full-page engraved illustration of dedicatee's arms, full-page engraved portrait, folding double-page engraved world map by Jan van Doetecum the younger after Petrus Plancius [Shirley Mapping of the World 187], 42 engraved double-page maps and plates [including a second of St Helena not listed in the 'Sequitur tabula'] by Baptista van Doetecum, Jan van Doetecum the younger, Arnold Florensz. van Langren, and Hendrik Florensz. van Langren, after Willem Barents, A.F. van Langren and Linschoten, 11 folding, woodcut initials. (Scattered light spotting, short clean tears on a few maps and plates, light, mainly marginal worming on gatherings B-C, bifolium *2.3 bound in reverse, small hole on C2, 2A1 supplied from a shorter copy.) Contemporary vellum, titled in a contemporary hand on the spine (vellum a little marked and cockled, endpapers replaced, block split).
FIRST LATIN EDITION. THE FIRST EDITION TO INCLUDE BARENTS'S MAP OF HIS VOYAGE AND THE REGIONS ADJACENT TO THE NORTH POLE. RARE. Linschoten, a Dutchman born in Delft, was in Goa between 1583 and 1589, and with Willem Barents on his second voyage to the Kara Sea in 1594-1595. These experiences were recorded in the present work, which was first published in Dutch (Amsterdam: 1595-1596), and contains the most comprehensive account of the East and West Indies available at the end of the sixteenth century; indeed, copies were 'given to each ship sailing from Holland to India' (Church 252, Amsterdam: 1595-1596 edition). As well as including important travel accounts taken from contemporary Portugese, Dutch and Spanish sources, it is the first work to include precise sailing instructions for the Indies and also includes an account of America. Its popularity was such that it was soon translated into other languages, and remained in print well into the seventeenth century.
This, the rare first Latin edition is an abridged translation of the first edition, to which the map of Barents's voyage has been added, and Arnold and Hendrik Florentsz. van Langen's copy of Plancius's 1594 world map replaced by Jan van Doetecum the younger's engraving of Plancius's 1594 map. ABPC records only one copy at auction since 1975. Adams L-735; Borba de Moraes (1983) pp.488-489; Brunet III, col.1091; Sabin 41366; Willems Les Elzevier 950.
Provenance
Location of maps and plates marked on versos in a contemporary hand.
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-66).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-66).
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