WARNSINCK DELPRAT, C.E. & W. VOORBEIJTEL CANNENBURG (EDITORS),
Vervarelyke schip-breuk van 't Oost-Indisch Jacht Terschelling, onder het landt van Bengale... -[Authentic dutch language facsim. after the second edition of the journal by F.J. van der Heiden and W.P. Kunst 1675. First edition, thus].
Urecht, W. de Haan, 1944. 8°. Original clothbacked grey boards. Richly gilded spine. Hftitle (verso with frontispiece). ti.-p. printed in red and black. 137pp. Captioned monochrome facsim. frontispiece, 13 captioned monochrome facsim. plates after original engravings, extending monochrome facsim. map of the Bengal Kingdom, extending facsim. plan of the V.O.C. settlement Hoegly with legenda, after Valentyn, printed marginalia, notes, prefaces by editors, printed marginalia, colophon, table of contents. Limited edition of 775 copies only, this copy bears nr. 739. Typography by J.H. van Krimpen. Copy from the library of L.H. Siertsema, his ex-librias pasted on recte of f.e.p. Dutch language authentic facsim. reprint edition narrating after the original Log the sea-voyage of a small merchant, a Yancht) Terschelling, and its shipwreck on the Coast of the Kingdom of Bengal. Very good untrimmed copy. (koriginal spine skilfully replaced, contents crisp and clean).
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