VEER, Gerrit de. - Hoedaanig de Hollanders in de jaaren 1596 en 1597 in Nova Zembla hebben overwintert.

(Amsterdam, 1730). 4 engraved scenes from the Dutch winter camp on Novaya Zemlya on 1 sheet after Gerrit de Veer. Ca. 27 x 34 cm. Third state. - From: Le Clerc. Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden. - This is one of many different versions of the engraving on the title-page of Gerrit de Veer, Waerachtige beschryvinghe van drie seijlagien (1598). This engraving depicts four images of the Dutch wintering on Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin by Willem Barentsz and his crew in 1596-97. This is the earliest over-wintering this far north. - Fine. Muller, Historieplaten, 1053b; Atlas van Stolk 978; Cf. Ingalls, Lothrop Collection, 2.

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