![SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon. The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage made by William Cornelison Schouten of Horne. Shewing how South from the Straights of Magelan, in Terra Del-fuogo: he found and discovered a newe passage through the great South Sea, and that way sayled round about the world. Translated from Dutch into English by William Phillip. London: T. D[awson] for Nathanaell Newbery, 1619.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/NYR/2007_NYR_01820_0465_000(015322).jpg?w=1)
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SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon. The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage made by William Cornelison Schouten of Horne. Shewing how South from the Straights of Magelan, in Terra Del-fuogo: he found and discovered a newe passage through the great South Sea, and that way sayled round about the world. Translated from Dutch into English by William Phillip. London: T. D[awson] for Nathanaell Newbery, 1619.
Small 4o (180 x 137 mm). Engraved vignette map of Terra del Fuego on title (71 x 108 mm), repeated on D1v. 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards (spine with some chips); blue morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Boies Penrose (bookplate, his sale part II, Sotheby's London, 9 November 1971, lot 217, illustrated).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF "ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VOYAGES MADE DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY" (Church). Schouten and Jacob Le Maire sailed from 14 June 1615 to 1 July 1617, navigating the strait which bears the name of the latter. In this voyage Cape Horn was for the first time rounded from the east.
"This voyage, resulting as it did in the discovery of little importance in the Pacific, none the less deserves our highest respect. It was conducted with more than ordinary ability, and, though it failed in its primary objective [the discovery of a southern continent] from the very nature of the quest, the absence of crisis throughout its course indicates the advance over a hundred years of the technique of navigation and the design of ocean-going ships. Out of eighty-seven men only three had died--one off the coast of Portugal, early in the voyage, then Jan Schouten, and a sailor at Jacatra, the first of all the crew of the Eendracht. Scurvy for once had been defeated: Dutch vessels were far less crowded than the older Spanish ships, and this reacted favourably on the general health. Nor was it a small feat to have discovered the Strait of Le Maire, and to have sailed a vessel for the first time round the Horn; or to have made known a greater portion of the northern coastline of New Guinea... it was an effort, unlike the other Dutch exploration of the seventeenth century, definitely addressed to the discovery of the unknown southern continent--Terra Australis incognita" (J.C. Beaglehole, The Exploration of the Pacific, Stanford, 1968, 3rd ed., pp.135-36). Alden & Landis 619/122; Church 377; JCB (3) II:129 (with inserted plates); Palau 305124; Sabin 77962; STC 21828. VERY RARE.
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF "ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VOYAGES MADE DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY" (Church). Schouten and Jacob Le Maire sailed from 14 June 1615 to 1 July 1617, navigating the strait which bears the name of the latter. In this voyage Cape Horn was for the first time rounded from the east.
"This voyage, resulting as it did in the discovery of little importance in the Pacific, none the less deserves our highest respect. It was conducted with more than ordinary ability, and, though it failed in its primary objective [the discovery of a southern continent] from the very nature of the quest, the absence of crisis throughout its course indicates the advance over a hundred years of the technique of navigation and the design of ocean-going ships. Out of eighty-seven men only three had died--one off the coast of Portugal, early in the voyage, then Jan Schouten, and a sailor at Jacatra, the first of all the crew of the Eendracht. Scurvy for once had been defeated: Dutch vessels were far less crowded than the older Spanish ships, and this reacted favourably on the general health. Nor was it a small feat to have discovered the Strait of Le Maire, and to have sailed a vessel for the first time round the Horn; or to have made known a greater portion of the northern coastline of New Guinea... it was an effort, unlike the other Dutch exploration of the seventeenth century, definitely addressed to the discovery of the unknown southern continent--Terra Australis incognita" (J.C. Beaglehole, The Exploration of the Pacific, Stanford, 1968, 3rd ed., pp.135-36). Alden & Landis 619/122; Church 377; JCB (3) II:129 (with inserted plates); Palau 305124; Sabin 77962; STC 21828. VERY RARE.