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JAN HUYGEN LINSCHOTEN (1563-1611)
Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandais, Aux Indes Orientales. Contenant diverses Descriptions des lieux jusques à present decouverts par les Portugais. Avec annotations de B. Paludanus. Deuxieme edition augmentee [ - Le Grand Routier de Mer and Description de l'Amerique]. Amsterdam: Jean Evertsz Cloppenburch, 1619. 2° (305 x 190mm). 3 engraved title-pages, portrait of the Author, 42 engraved maps and plates, all folding or double-page. (Plates washed, world map backed with tissue, some intermittent browning.) Modern crimson morocco gilt, edges gilt. Modern morocco-backed box.
RARE COMPLETE COPY OF THE ENLARGED SECOND FRENCH EDITION of this highly influential work containing all the knowledge and learning relating to the East and West Indies at the end of the sixteenth century. Translated from Spanish and Portuguese documents on navigation and geography, it served as a direct stimulus to the building of the vast English and Dutch overseas empires. As a navigational aid, it was so highly esteemed that a copy was given to each ship sailing for the Indies. Linschoten's own first-hand knowledge came from his voyages to Goa in 1583 and to the Arctic with Willem Barents in 1594 in search of a North East Passage. Fine complete copies are now rare. First published with 42 maps and plates in Dutch, 1596; this edition first published in French, 1610. Sabin 41372; Brunet III, 1091.
Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandais, Aux Indes Orientales. Contenant diverses Descriptions des lieux jusques à present decouverts par les Portugais. Avec annotations de B. Paludanus. Deuxieme edition augmentee [ - Le Grand Routier de Mer and Description de l'Amerique]. Amsterdam: Jean Evertsz Cloppenburch, 1619. 2° (305 x 190mm). 3 engraved title-pages, portrait of the Author, 42 engraved maps and plates, all folding or double-page. (Plates washed, world map backed with tissue, some intermittent browning.) Modern crimson morocco gilt, edges gilt. Modern morocco-backed box.
RARE COMPLETE COPY OF THE ENLARGED SECOND FRENCH EDITION of this highly influential work containing all the knowledge and learning relating to the East and West Indies at the end of the sixteenth century. Translated from Spanish and Portuguese documents on navigation and geography, it served as a direct stimulus to the building of the vast English and Dutch overseas empires. As a navigational aid, it was so highly esteemed that a copy was given to each ship sailing for the Indies. Linschoten's own first-hand knowledge came from his voyages to Goa in 1583 and to the Arctic with Willem Barents in 1594 in search of a North East Passage. Fine complete copies are now rare. First published with 42 maps and plates in Dutch, 1596; this edition first published in French, 1610. Sabin 41372; Brunet III, 1091.
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