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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611). Voyasie, ofte Schip-vaert ... van by Noorden om langes Noorwegen de Noordt-Caep, Laplandt, Vinlandt, Ruslandt, de Witte Zee, de Kusten van Kandenoes, Swetenoes, Pitzora, . Amsterdam: Jan Evertssen Cloppenburg, 1624.
Exceedingly rare description of pioneering Arctic voyages in search of the North-East Passage to China. Linschoten accompanied Willem Barents on his first and second voyages of 1594 and 1595 to the Arctic Ocean. During the first voyage, Linschoten actually managed to enter the Kara Sea at the beginning of August, which was unusually free of ice that year. The second voyage was launched on a much grander scale, with the vision of completing the North-East passage, and included 7 ships loaded with merchandise destined for China. However, this time the approach to Novaya Zemlya was impassable due to ice, and the fleet turned south, landing at Pechora Bay (Pechorskaya Guba), where they were met by a party of Samoyeds. The tracks of the voyages were rather similar, and are detailed on the map of Scandinavia (15), complete with the easterly route of the more successful first voyage into the Kara Sea. This map comprises Norway and parts of Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, and is the last engraving in the work. It is accurately and decoratively engraved by Johannes van Doetecum and his son Baptista, and includes 3 illustrations in the lower right-hand corner depicting Nenet huntsmen, a reindeer sled, and some Nenet gods. A description of the second voyage follows, and the work ends with an extract from a resolution of the States General regarding the voyages. The first edition had appeared in 1601; this second edition can be identified by the spelling of 'Voyasie' on the title-page, and the fact that the 15 double-page plates of maps each have binding placement instructions in the lower right-hand corner of each plate. 'Both editions are scarce' (Ginsberg); both were published in Dutch, and no translation has appeared. According to ABPC/RBH, no copy of the first edition of 1601 has appeared at auction since 1976; the only copy of this 1624 second edition sold in that time was lot 122 at Christie's New York on 19 December 1986, bound in a single volume together with the 3 volume 1644 edition of Linschoten's Itinerarium. Church 324 (first edition only); Ginsberg 49 (map 15); Howgego L132 (first edition only).
Folio (296 x 192mm). Second edition, text in Dutch. Title within engraved architectonic border, elaborately decorated with hunters armed with bows and arrows, hanging fish, and inset map of Novaya Zemlya supported by a polar bear and walrus, 15 double-page engraved maps, some of which folding (very light stain to lower portion of title, a few text leaves and maps, mainly affecting versoes, map 13 just trimmed into image with the loss of a couple of letters, very short marginal tear to second text leaf affecting two letters, some soiling and scattered spotting). The whole disbound and loose.
Exceedingly rare description of pioneering Arctic voyages in search of the North-East Passage to China. Linschoten accompanied Willem Barents on his first and second voyages of 1594 and 1595 to the Arctic Ocean. During the first voyage, Linschoten actually managed to enter the Kara Sea at the beginning of August, which was unusually free of ice that year. The second voyage was launched on a much grander scale, with the vision of completing the North-East passage, and included 7 ships loaded with merchandise destined for China. However, this time the approach to Novaya Zemlya was impassable due to ice, and the fleet turned south, landing at Pechora Bay (Pechorskaya Guba), where they were met by a party of Samoyeds. The tracks of the voyages were rather similar, and are detailed on the map of Scandinavia (15), complete with the easterly route of the more successful first voyage into the Kara Sea. This map comprises Norway and parts of Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, and is the last engraving in the work. It is accurately and decoratively engraved by Johannes van Doetecum and his son Baptista, and includes 3 illustrations in the lower right-hand corner depicting Nenet huntsmen, a reindeer sled, and some Nenet gods. A description of the second voyage follows, and the work ends with an extract from a resolution of the States General regarding the voyages. The first edition had appeared in 1601; this second edition can be identified by the spelling of 'Voyasie' on the title-page, and the fact that the 15 double-page plates of maps each have binding placement instructions in the lower right-hand corner of each plate. 'Both editions are scarce' (Ginsberg); both were published in Dutch, and no translation has appeared. According to ABPC/RBH, no copy of the first edition of 1601 has appeared at auction since 1976; the only copy of this 1624 second edition sold in that time was lot 122 at Christie's New York on 19 December 1986, bound in a single volume together with the 3 volume 1644 edition of Linschoten's Itinerarium. Church 324 (first edition only); Ginsberg 49 (map 15); Howgego L132 (first edition only).
Folio (296 x 192mm). Second edition, text in Dutch. Title within engraved architectonic border, elaborately decorated with hunters armed with bows and arrows, hanging fish, and inset map of Novaya Zemlya supported by a polar bear and walrus, 15 double-page engraved maps, some of which folding (very light stain to lower portion of title, a few text leaves and maps, mainly affecting versoes, map 13 just trimmed into image with the loss of a couple of letters, very short marginal tear to second text leaf affecting two letters, some soiling and scattered spotting). The whole disbound and loose.
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