Author: OOSTKAMP, Jan Antonie.
Title: De merkwaardigste Nederlandsche zeereizen, sedert den jare 1594. Voor de vaderlandsche jeugd, ... Met platen. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck; Leeuwarden, Gerard Tjaard Nicolaas Suringar, 1825. 2 volumes. 8vo. Each volume with a letterpress half-title and engraved title-page with a vignette showing a Dutch sailing ship, and 7 engraved plates (2 folding). Contemporary half cloth, spines with letterpress title labels.
Description: VI, [2], 224; [6], 200 pp.First and only edition of a collection of Dutch sea voyages for children, edited by the school teacher Jan Antonie Oostkamp (1778-1845), who wrote about 30 widely-read books. The voyages include Willem Barentsz's first three voyages in search of a northeast passage (1594, 1595 & 1596), the third under the command of Jacob van Heemskerk, and their winter camp on the island Nova Zembla; the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies, by Molenaar, Dignumsz, Schellinger and Mau (1596); Jacob van Neck and Wybrand van Warwyck's first voyage to the East Indies (1598); the first Dutch circumnavigation of the globe by Olivier van Noort (1598); Paulus van Caerden and Pieter Both's voyage to the East Indies (1599); Joris van Spilbergen's voyage to the Moluccas (1614); Schouten and Le Maire's voyage to the East Indies (1615); Bontekoe's disastrous voyage to the East Indies (1618); Jacob Heremiet's circumnavigation of the globe (1623); and Abel Tasman's first pacific voyage (1642). Leaves H4.5 of vol. 2 detached, bindings rubbed and spines slightly damaged, otherwise in very good condition. A nicely illustrated account of Dutch voyages, written for children.l Cat. NHSM, p. 122; NCC (8 copies); Saalmink, p. 1436.
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Title: De merkwaardigste Nederlandsche zeereizen, sedert den jare 1594. Voor de vaderlandsche jeugd, ... Met platen. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck; Leeuwarden, Gerard Tjaard Nicolaas Suringar, 1825. 2 volumes. 8vo. Each volume with a letterpress half-title and engraved title-page with a vignette showing a Dutch sailing ship, and 7 engraved plates (2 folding). Contemporary half cloth, spines with letterpress title labels.
Description: VI, [2], 224; [6], 200 pp.First and only edition of a collection of Dutch sea voyages for children, edited by the school teacher Jan Antonie Oostkamp (1778-1845), who wrote about 30 widely-read books. The voyages include Willem Barentsz's first three voyages in search of a northeast passage (1594, 1595 & 1596), the third under the command of Jacob van Heemskerk, and their winter camp on the island Nova Zembla; the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies, by Molenaar, Dignumsz, Schellinger and Mau (1596); Jacob van Neck and Wybrand van Warwyck's first voyage to the East Indies (1598); the first Dutch circumnavigation of the globe by Olivier van Noort (1598); Paulus van Caerden and Pieter Both's voyage to the East Indies (1599); Joris van Spilbergen's voyage to the Moluccas (1614); Schouten and Le Maire's voyage to the East Indies (1615); Bontekoe's disastrous voyage to the East Indies (1618); Jacob Heremiet's circumnavigation of the globe (1623); and Abel Tasman's first pacific voyage (1642). Leaves H4.5 of vol. 2 detached, bindings rubbed and spines slightly damaged, otherwise in very good condition. A nicely illustrated account of Dutch voyages, written for children.l Cat. NHSM, p. 122; NCC (8 copies); Saalmink, p. 1436.
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- Book number: F9CB0K23SY47
- Book number: F9CB0K23SY47