Author: OOSTKAMP, J.A.,
Title: De Merkwaardigste Nederlandsche Zeereizen, sedert den Jare 1594. Voor de Vaderlandsche Jeugd. Vol. I (of 2).
Description: Amsterdam en Leeuwarden, Beijerinck/Suringar, [..], 1825. sm.8°. recent clothbacked old boards, new endpapers. (ii), (xviii), 224, [2]pp.(list of contents). engraved title-vignette (a ship under full sail), an original professional drawing on verso of ti.-p., 4 ills. on 2 engraved plates, 1 fold. engraved plate being a view on Ternate, colonial Indonesia, with its volcano. BUUR, I.J., 0001. In his preface and introduction author states that this compilation of dutch sea-voyages are truthfully retold without the usual lies and exaggerations, in order to educate and interest dutch youths in the history of dutch sea-voyages and discoveries. The first part deals with subsequent voyages by [Willem] Barentsz. and Heemskerk to Norway, Russia, incl. the stay of the dutch on Nova Zembla, and to Cathay, China and Tartary; the second part describes sea-voyages to the East[Indies} by a.o. Jan Janszoon Molenaar, Jacob van Neck and Wijbrand van Warwijck, ending with the first circumnavigation by Olivier van Noort en Jacob van Ilpendam. Although this is vol. I of II, still of great rarity. The copy present in KITLV-library lacks all the plates. Good copy. (some occas. marginal soiling, but all in all a very reasonable to good copy).

Keywords: juvenile maritime voyages russia china circumnavigation indonesia southeastasia buur 19thc. v.o.c.