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[ROXBURGHE CLUB]. Jan Huygen van Linschoten and the Moral Map of Asia: The Plates and Text of the Itinerario and Icones, habitus gestusque Indorum ac Lusitanorum per Indiam viventium. With a study by Ernst van den Boogaart. London: Printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 1999.
Large 2o (610 x 440 mm). Frontispiece portrait of Linschoten, 42 color facsimiles of the Itinerario, an uncolored facsimile with color title-page of the Habitus loosely inserted in a pocket at back of book, and an extra set of the 42 plates loose in green cloth portfolio. Quarter green morocco, green cloth boards; all housed in green cloth box. Provenance: Helmut Friedlaender (manuscript notation on loose sheet in book, his sale part II, Christie's East, 24 April 2001, lot 471).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 40 deluxe copies with an extra set of the plates. "Privately printed in a edition of 300 copies of which 160 copies are for sale. 40 copies bound in quarter morocco with an extra set of the plates numbered I-XL. 120 copies bound in buckram numbered 1-120." Presented to the club by H.F. Oppenheimer.
Large 2
LIMITED EDITION, one of 40 deluxe copies with an extra set of the plates. "Privately printed in a edition of 300 copies of which 160 copies are for sale. 40 copies bound in quarter morocco with an extra set of the plates numbered I-XL. 120 copies bound in buckram numbered 1-120." Presented to the club by H.F. Oppenheimer.