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GEORGE DE SPILBERGEN (1568-1620) AND JACOB LE MAIRE (1585-1616)
Miroir Ooost & West-Indical, Auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres Navigations, faictes es Années 1614. 1615. 1617. & 1618. l'une par le renommé Guerrier de Mer, George de Spilbergen, par le Detroit de Magellan & ainsi autour de toute la terre, L'autre faicte par Jacob le Maire, lequel au costé du Zud du Destroict de Magellan, a decouvert un nouveau Destroict. Amsterdam: Chez Jan Jansz, 1621. Oblong 4° (160 x 225mm). 4 folding engraved maps and 21 engraved plates, 1 double-page, 1 folding. (Two maps creased.) Contemporary vellum with later endpapers (soiled), modern morocco box.
RARE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of one of the most successful Dutch voyages, establishing the power and reputation of the Dutch East India Company throughout the Pacific. The French edition is rarer and more complete than the Latin edition of 1619, continuing Le Maire's journal to July, 1617. Both Le Maire and Schouten had been taken on board by Spilbergen at Java after their successful transit of the Strait of Le Maire; Brunet V, 491; Borba de Moraes 826.
Miroir Ooost & West-Indical, Auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres Navigations, faictes es Années 1614. 1615. 1617. & 1618. l'une par le renommé Guerrier de Mer, George de Spilbergen, par le Detroit de Magellan & ainsi autour de toute la terre, L'autre faicte par Jacob le Maire, lequel au costé du Zud du Destroict de Magellan, a decouvert un nouveau Destroict. Amsterdam: Chez Jan Jansz, 1621. Oblong 4° (160 x 225mm). 4 folding engraved maps and 21 engraved plates, 1 double-page, 1 folding. (Two maps creased.) Contemporary vellum with later endpapers (soiled), modern morocco box.
RARE FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of one of the most successful Dutch voyages, establishing the power and reputation of the Dutch East India Company throughout the Pacific. The French edition is rarer and more complete than the Latin edition of 1619, continuing Le Maire's journal to July, 1617. Both Le Maire and Schouten had been taken on board by Spilbergen at Java after their successful transit of the Strait of Le Maire; Brunet V, 491; Borba de Moraes 826.
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