Author: JONGE, Jan Karel Jakob de. Title: Nova Zembla. De voorwerpen door de Nederlandsche zeevaarders na hunne overwintering aldaar in 1597 achtergelaten en in 1871 door kapitein Carlsen teruggevonden, beschreven en toegelicht.
Description: 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1872. Original printed wrappers (sl. damaged.). With lithographed frontispiece, lithographed plate, and large folding map. 36 pp. Concerns relics of Willem Barendsz, who died in 1597, when an expedition from Amsterdam seeking a Northeast Passage to China made a forced wintering on Novaya Zemlya. Tiele 559; Cat. NHSM I, p.308; Cf. Arctic Bibl. 8250.
Keywords: Arctic Dutch travel Nova Zembla Pole
Price: EUR 137.50 = appr. US$ 149.44 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 26084