Author: LODEWYCKSZ, WILLEM, - VIBEKE ROEPER & DIEDERIK WILDEMAN (INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, ANNOTATION),
Title: Om de Zuid. De Eerste Schipvaart naar oost-Indië onder Cornelis de Houtman, 1595-1597, opgetekend door Willem Lodewycksz. [Eerste druk; First edition, thus].
Description: Nijmegen, SUN, 1997. Original coloured illustrated limp glossy wrappers. 247pp. Many black/white facsim. illustrations in text, after old engravings, double sided track maps inside covers, literature, table of contents. The first sea voyage by the dutch around the Cape of good Hope to the East Indies, under command of Cornelis de Houtman, from the journal by Willem Lodewycksz, reproduced in original seventeenth century dutch language, introduced, translated and annotated in modern dutch. The voyage took more than three years. Very fine copy.

Keywords: voyage discovery narrative history dutch maritime history travel schipvaart colonialism indonesia southeastasia