Author: AA, Pieter van der.
Title: De aanmerkenswaardige voyagien door alderhande vreemde natien, na Oost- en West-Indië, mitsgaders door andere gewesten.
Description: Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. 8 volumes in 4. Large folio. Later half calf. With 4 engraved dedication-leaves to Abraham van Riebeek, 8 engraved allegorical frontispieces, 8 title-pages printed in red and black, 114 engraved maps (mostly with 2 on 1 folding leaf) and over 500 engravings in the text (1 rep. and 1 dam.).First folio edition. - Rare complete collection of the most memorable voyages to the East and West Indies covering the period from 1246 to 1696. Containing 128 early Spanish, Portuguese, French, English Italian, Danish, Germans, etc. travel-accounts, partly from the original manuscripts and published for the first time in Dutch, and also from the collections of de Barros, Herrera, Thevenot, Hakluyt, Purchas, etc. Including voyages by Acosta, Balby, Cabot, Cavendish, Chester, Columbus, Cortes, Coutinho, Da Cunha, Drake, Evesko, Frobisher, Gallonye, Da Gama, Garay, Garcia, Gilbert, Jenkinson, Harcourt, Herberer, Magallanes, Mildenhal and Cartwright, Mouette, Petelin and Andrasko, Raleigh, Saris, De Soto, etc. Each part with separate title-page, with engraved vignette, and pagination. Van der AA started to publish this collection first in octavo, arranged chronologically. He proceeded this huge project with the folio-edition, which he then further arranged to nations. - Age-browned otherwise a very attractive set of an amazing collection in Dutch of well over a hundred accounts of voyages of discovery all over the world by all nations other then the Dutch. Sabin 3; Tiele 5; Cat. NHSM I, p.107; European Americana V, p.110-11; See P.G. Hoftijzer, Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), Leids drukker en boekverkoper (1999).
Keywords: Africa America Asia Dutch travel Jubileum cat. detiger travel
Title: De aanmerkenswaardige voyagien door alderhande vreemde natien, na Oost- en West-Indië, mitsgaders door andere gewesten.
Description: Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. 8 volumes in 4. Large folio. Later half calf. With 4 engraved dedication-leaves to Abraham van Riebeek, 8 engraved allegorical frontispieces, 8 title-pages printed in red and black, 114 engraved maps (mostly with 2 on 1 folding leaf) and over 500 engravings in the text (1 rep. and 1 dam.).First folio edition. - Rare complete collection of the most memorable voyages to the East and West Indies covering the period from 1246 to 1696. Containing 128 early Spanish, Portuguese, French, English Italian, Danish, Germans, etc. travel-accounts, partly from the original manuscripts and published for the first time in Dutch, and also from the collections of de Barros, Herrera, Thevenot, Hakluyt, Purchas, etc. Including voyages by Acosta, Balby, Cabot, Cavendish, Chester, Columbus, Cortes, Coutinho, Da Cunha, Drake, Evesko, Frobisher, Gallonye, Da Gama, Garay, Garcia, Gilbert, Jenkinson, Harcourt, Herberer, Magallanes, Mildenhal and Cartwright, Mouette, Petelin and Andrasko, Raleigh, Saris, De Soto, etc. Each part with separate title-page, with engraved vignette, and pagination. Van der AA started to publish this collection first in octavo, arranged chronologically. He proceeded this huge project with the folio-edition, which he then further arranged to nations. - Age-browned otherwise a very attractive set of an amazing collection in Dutch of well over a hundred accounts of voyages of discovery all over the world by all nations other then the Dutch. Sabin 3; Tiele 5; Cat. NHSM I, p.107; European Americana V, p.110-11; See P.G. Hoftijzer, Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), Leids drukker en boekverkoper (1999).
Keywords: Africa America Asia Dutch travel Jubileum cat. detiger travel
Price: EUR 71500.00 = appr. US$ 77709.56 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 36421
- Book number: 36421