Author: VOS, Willem. Title: De bouw van een Oost-Indiėvaarder. Visie op de bouw van een Hollands spiegelretourschip in de Gouden eeuw.
Description: Zutphen, Walburg, 2015. 4to. Half cloth. With numerous coloured illustrations. 168pp. Construction drawings by ship-builder Willem Vos of the Batavia, a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), built in Amsterdam in 1628. The Batavia, shipwrecked on her maiden voyage off Australia's west coast and was made famous by the subsequent mutiny and massacre that took place among the survivors. A twentieth-century replica of the ship was built in Lelystad, Netherlands, by Willem Vos.
Keywords: Australia Dutch maritime history VOC Australia VOC Dutch East India Company marine art
Price: EUR 44.00 = appr. US$ 47.82 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 33794