![LINSCHOTEN, Ian Huygen van (1563-1611). His Discours of Voyages unto ye Easte & West Indies. Devided into Foure Bookes. Translated from Dutch into English by William Phillip. London: [John Windet for] John Wolfe, 1598.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_14998_0197_000(linschoten_ian_huygen_van_his_discours_of_voyages_unto_ye_easte_west_i101214).jpg?w=1)
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LINSCHOTEN, Ian Huygen van (1563-1611). His Discours of Voyages unto ye Easte & West Indies. Devided into Foure Bookes. Translated from Dutch into English by William Phillip. London: [John Windet for] John Wolfe, 1598.
The first edition in English. Linschoten voyaged to Goa in 1583 and 1589 and took part in William Barentsz's second voyage to the Kara Sea in 1594-95. His Itinerario was "the first work outside of Portugal and Spain to provide detailed practical information on how to get to and carry on the trade with America and India” (Streeter sale).
“The work was indispensable to sailors on the route to the Indies; it provided a dictionary of exotic commodities, of national trading methods, etc. It includes accurate sailing directions to the East Indies and many translations of Spanish and Portuguese documents on geography. Linschoten's work, along with Hakluyt's, served as a direct stimulus to the building of the vast English and Dutch overseas empires" (Streeter sale). According to legend, copies were given to every ship sailing to India to use as a log-book. Most of the maps and views of the English edition are re-engravings of the plates of the original Dutch edition of 1595-96, with captions in Latin and English. Alden & Landis 598/57; Borba de Moraes I:488; Church 321; Hill 1025; Sabin 41374; STC 15691; Streeter sale I:31.
Four parts in one, folio (274 x 183mm). Engraved general title by William Rogers (Johnson, p. 2, Rogers no. 3), letterpress divisional titles to books 2-4 each with a different engraved map vignette (Congo, double-hemisphere world [Shirley 182], and Spain), 12 folding maps and plates (comprising 9 maps on 11 sheets, including a World Map after Ortelius [Shirley 167], and 3 plates with views of St. Helena and the island of Ascension, some maps misbound), 4 woodcut maps in text, woodcut initials, factotums and head-piece ornaments (engraved title cut round and mounted, four plates with tears, a few headlines shaved, map of Mozambique with a marginal paper flaw, M4 with rusthole catching a few letters, tiny marginal wormtrack in signature Hh and last three gatherings, pale marginal dampstain at end). Late 18th/early 19th-century diced russia gilt (joints cracked, wear at ends of spine and at corners, lettering-piece lacking).
The first edition in English. Linschoten voyaged to Goa in 1583 and 1589 and took part in William Barentsz's second voyage to the Kara Sea in 1594-95. His Itinerario was "the first work outside of Portugal and Spain to provide detailed practical information on how to get to and carry on the trade with America and India” (Streeter sale).
“The work was indispensable to sailors on the route to the Indies; it provided a dictionary of exotic commodities, of national trading methods, etc. It includes accurate sailing directions to the East Indies and many translations of Spanish and Portuguese documents on geography. Linschoten's work, along with Hakluyt's, served as a direct stimulus to the building of the vast English and Dutch overseas empires" (Streeter sale). According to legend, copies were given to every ship sailing to India to use as a log-book. Most of the maps and views of the English edition are re-engravings of the plates of the original Dutch edition of 1595-96, with captions in Latin and English. Alden & Landis 598/57; Borba de Moraes I:488; Church 321; Hill 1025; Sabin 41374; STC 15691; Streeter sale I:31.
Four parts in one, folio (274 x 183mm). Engraved general title by William Rogers (Johnson, p. 2, Rogers no. 3), letterpress divisional titles to books 2-4 each with a different engraved map vignette (Congo, double-hemisphere world [Shirley 182], and Spain), 12 folding maps and plates (comprising 9 maps on 11 sheets, including a World Map after Ortelius [Shirley 167], and 3 plates with views of St. Helena and the island of Ascension, some maps misbound), 4 woodcut maps in text, woodcut initials, factotums and head-piece ornaments (engraved title cut round and mounted, four plates with tears, a few headlines shaved, map of Mozambique with a marginal paper flaw, M4 with rusthole catching a few letters, tiny marginal wormtrack in signature Hh and last three gatherings, pale marginal dampstain at end). Late 18th/early 19th-century diced russia gilt (joints cracked, wear at ends of spine and at corners, lettering-piece lacking).