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SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon (1567-1625). Journael ofte beschryvinghe van de wonderliicke reyse. Amsterdam: Willem Janzoon [Blaeu], 1619.
4o (186 x 152 mm). Engraved vignette of ships on title, 4 engraved maps and 5 engraved plates (all folding). (Some pale dampstaining.) Early 20th-century drab boards.
An apparently unrecorded variant of Schouten's narrative of his voyage of 1615-17. The work was immensely popular and saw numerous contemporary reprints published in Amsterdam by Blaeu and Harmen Jansz in 1618-19. The present imprint is unrecorded in the extensive compilations by Sabin and Alden & Landis; the dedication is dated September 25, as in the first edition, which was also published by Blaeu. Blaeu is in fact often credited with compiling and authoring the journal in addition to preparing it for the press. He had access to at least one of the log books of the voyage, especially that kept by the commissary Aris Claeszoon.
The plates comprise a double-hemispheric world map incorporating portraits of Magellan, Schouten, Drake, van Noort, Cavendish and Spilberben; a map of Porto Desire, or Leeuwen Eylandt; a map of the South Sea; map of New Guinea; a map of Tierra del Fuego; a plate showing the Dutch slaying a sea lion and digging up remains; a plate showing a meeting with the Indian kings in a village; a plate showing Isle de Hoorn; a plate showing an Indian sailing a canoe pursued by the Dutch.
The work was translated and published soon after initial publication in Dutch into Latin, French, German and English editions. For the extremely rare English edition, see the following lot. See Alden & Landis 619/114; Palau 305085; Sabin 77924. ALL EARLY EDITIONS ARE VERY RARE.
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An apparently unrecorded variant of Schouten's narrative of his voyage of 1615-17. The work was immensely popular and saw numerous contemporary reprints published in Amsterdam by Blaeu and Harmen Jansz in 1618-19. The present imprint is unrecorded in the extensive compilations by Sabin and Alden & Landis; the dedication is dated September 25, as in the first edition, which was also published by Blaeu. Blaeu is in fact often credited with compiling and authoring the journal in addition to preparing it for the press. He had access to at least one of the log books of the voyage, especially that kept by the commissary Aris Claeszoon.
The plates comprise a double-hemispheric world map incorporating portraits of Magellan, Schouten, Drake, van Noort, Cavendish and Spilberben; a map of Porto Desire, or Leeuwen Eylandt; a map of the South Sea; map of New Guinea; a map of Tierra del Fuego; a plate showing the Dutch slaying a sea lion and digging up remains; a plate showing a meeting with the Indian kings in a village; a plate showing Isle de Hoorn; a plate showing an Indian sailing a canoe pursued by the Dutch.
The work was translated and published soon after initial publication in Dutch into Latin, French, German and English editions. For the extremely rare English edition, see the following lot. See Alden & Landis 619/114; Palau 305085; Sabin 77924. ALL EARLY EDITIONS ARE VERY RARE.