Author: STAVORINUS, J.S.- Kaap de Goede Hoop.- Molukken.- Batavia.- Ambon.-
Title: Voyages par le Cap de Bonne - Espérance Dans L'Archipel Des Molucques, de 1768 A 1771 et de 1774 A 1778, De J. Stavorinus, Chef d'escadre de la République Batave. Traduits du Hollandois, Par H.J.Jansen. Seconde édition. Ornée de cartes et de Figures. TOME SECOND.
Description: Paris, Chez Maradan, Librairie, rue des Grands-Augustins, no 29, vis-à-vis la Rue du Pont-de-Lodi, 1805. 8vo. Vol. 2 only!! W. 2 fold. engr. maps 'Vue de l'entrée du port d'Amboin' & 'Carte de la Navigation De Batavia a Amboine' [p. 230 & at the end, meas. 33 x 19 & 79 x 25 cm resp.] & 1 engr. single page plate [p. 254]. In contemp. half green mor., spine gilt, over marbled brds. (Corners and edges rubbed, 1 corner dam.). [A - Z8, Aa8, Bb1]. (386 pp.). (Occasionally some light yellowing; plates w. some foxing, unimportant.). 2nd edition of the French translation of Stavorinus' account 'Reize van Zeeland over de Kaap de Goede Hoop, naar Batavia, Bantam, Bengalen, ..'first published in Leyden, 1793, 2 vols. The author's first voyage. Stavorinus, a captain in the service of the East India Company: Cat KNHSM, vol. I, p 178 for 1st and second Dutch edition of his travels and the French translation of the first trip here offered: Tiele, p. 230, comp. 1044, note: Comp. Cox, literature of Travel, vol. I, p. 307: With a very nice large folding engraved map [unsigned] of the journey from Batavia to Amboina. depicting the coastal regions of Java, Borneo, Celebes etc.

Keywords: Moluccas Semarang incompleet verkoop