Author: HOUTMAN, Cornelis de.
Title: De eerste schipvaerd der Hollandsche natie naer Oost-Indien, waer inne verhaelt wordt al wat haer sonderlings onder wegen bejegent is, als oock de conditien, religien, zeden, ende huys houdinghe der volckeren, met den aerd, vruchtbaerheyd, ghewassen, dieren, ende andere eygentschappen der landen, die sy beseylt hebben: ghetrocken uyt verscheyden journalen ofte dagh-registers daer van ghemaeckt, zeer vermaeckelijck ende nut om lesen.
Description: (Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1645). Oblong 8vo. Modern sprinkled boards. With 49 engraved plates. 112 pp. (text set in two columns). Extracted from Commelin's collection of voyages. - A group of Amsterdam merchants was responsible for the venture of the first Dutch voyage to the East in 1595. The four small ships sailed via the Cape of Good Hope to Bantam, a large trading centre on the west coast of Java. Three of the four ships finally returned to Amsterdam. 'Despite the loss of many men and one of the ships, troubles with both Javans and Portuguese, and profits barely large enough to cover expenses, the return of De Houtman's fleet set of a flurry of activity among Dutch entrepreneurs. In 1598, the year after its return, no fewer than twenty-five ships were sent out by merchants of the provinces of Holland and Zeeland alone' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making, III,1, p.439). This voyage provided European readers with the most detailed description of Java to date and with the first description of Bali in any language. At the Cape they landed and encountered a party of Hottentots. - (Part of plate 17 (market scene) missing but added in photocopy); some plates cut slightly short). - Rare early edition of the 'First Fleet'. Landwehr, VOC, 250; Tiele 81; Tiele, Mémoire, 4; Cat. NHSM I, p.105; Mendelssohn I, p.739.
Keywords: Asia Bali Dutch travel Indonesia Islands Java Lesser Sunda Islands St. Helena commelin
Title: De eerste schipvaerd der Hollandsche natie naer Oost-Indien, waer inne verhaelt wordt al wat haer sonderlings onder wegen bejegent is, als oock de conditien, religien, zeden, ende huys houdinghe der volckeren, met den aerd, vruchtbaerheyd, ghewassen, dieren, ende andere eygentschappen der landen, die sy beseylt hebben: ghetrocken uyt verscheyden journalen ofte dagh-registers daer van ghemaeckt, zeer vermaeckelijck ende nut om lesen.
Description: (Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1645). Oblong 8vo. Modern sprinkled boards. With 49 engraved plates. 112 pp. (text set in two columns). Extracted from Commelin's collection of voyages. - A group of Amsterdam merchants was responsible for the venture of the first Dutch voyage to the East in 1595. The four small ships sailed via the Cape of Good Hope to Bantam, a large trading centre on the west coast of Java. Three of the four ships finally returned to Amsterdam. 'Despite the loss of many men and one of the ships, troubles with both Javans and Portuguese, and profits barely large enough to cover expenses, the return of De Houtman's fleet set of a flurry of activity among Dutch entrepreneurs. In 1598, the year after its return, no fewer than twenty-five ships were sent out by merchants of the provinces of Holland and Zeeland alone' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making, III,1, p.439). This voyage provided European readers with the most detailed description of Java to date and with the first description of Bali in any language. At the Cape they landed and encountered a party of Hottentots. - (Part of plate 17 (market scene) missing but added in photocopy); some plates cut slightly short). - Rare early edition of the 'First Fleet'. Landwehr, VOC, 250; Tiele 81; Tiele, Mémoire, 4; Cat. NHSM I, p.105; Mendelssohn I, p.739.
Keywords: Asia Bali Dutch travel Indonesia Islands Java Lesser Sunda Islands St. Helena commelin
Price: EUR 962.50 = appr. US$ 1046.09 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 35243
- Book number: 35243