Author: OOSTKAMP, J.A.
Title: De merkwaardigste Nederlandsche zeereizen, sedert den jare 1595 voor de vaderlandsche jeugd. Deel I.
Description: Amsterdam, Leeuwarden, G.J.A. Beijerinck & G.T.N. Suringar, 1825.Sm.8vo. Modern half cloth, uncut. With engraved title-vignette, plate with sea-compass, folding plate of Ternate and 4 illustrations on 2 plates by J.A.R. Best. 224 pp. Volume one of two. - In his preface the author states that this compilation of Dutch voyages are truthfully retold without the useful lies and exaggerations. It contains the voyages of Willem Barentsz and Heemskerk to the Arctic, including the stay on Nova Zembla, Jan Janszoon Molenaar, Jacob van Neck and Wijbrand van Warwijck to the East and the first circumnavigation by Olivier van Noort. - Rare.Buur, Indische jeugdliteratuur, 0001 (incomplete copy); Cat. NHSM I, p.122..

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