Author: DAMPIER, William and Lionel WAFER.
Title: Reystogten rondom de waereldt; begrypende, in vier beknopte boekdeelen, een naauwkeurige beschryving van verscheyde nieuwe ontdekte zeeën, kusten, en landen, zo in Amerika, Asia, als Afrika; benevens veele nuttelyke aanmerkingen ontrent de stroomen, winden, havens, diepten, engtens en andere fraye waarnemingen en bysonderheden, zo van bereisde als voor dese, onbereisde gewesten. Alom doormengt met de beschrijving der inwoonders, aardt, zeden en plegtigheden derzer vreemde volkeren; midsgaders derselver landsdouwen, vrugten, gewassen, dieren, en andere seldsaamheden. Uyt het Engelsch in't Nederduyts overgebragt door W. Sewel.
Description: Amsterdam, Andries van Damme en Johannes Ratelband, 1717.4 volumes in 1. 4to. Old vellum (new endpapers), with morocco title label on spine, new ties. With title-page printed in red and black, 2 engraved allegorical titles, 16 engraved maps (10 folding) and 24 engraved plates (3 folding; few blank margins restored) by Casper Luiken and Jacob Lamsvelt. 12,394,(10); (8),284; (8),74,(5); 96 pp.Second Dutch edition; first published in Dutch in 's Gravenhage 1698-1704; first published in English in 1697 A new voyage round the world. - 'William Dampier (1652-1715) was the best known, and probably the most intelligent, of the famous group of buccaneers that tormented the Spaniards in the South Sea from 1680 to 1720' (Hill I, p.75). Dampier's descriptions of his wide-ranging buccaneering travels (he sailed around the world three times) include the account of the first English visit to Australia in 1688. His voyages marked the beginning of British scientific exploration of the Pacific. Countries visited are in America the West-Indies, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Brazil (including the earliest written description of Bahia), in Africa the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Cape Verd and in Asia the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and Formosa, Australia and various islands in the Pacific. - Age-browned, otherwise a fine copy.Tiele 290; Cat. NHSM I, p.135; European Americana V, p.214; Sabin 18388; Borba de Moraes I, p.242; Mendelssohn I, p.409-10; SAB II, p.10; Van Eeghen-van der Kellen 319; Howgego pp.294-298.
Keywords: Africa America Asia Dutch maritime history Jubileum cat. detiger maritime history piracy shipwrecks
Title: Reystogten rondom de waereldt; begrypende, in vier beknopte boekdeelen, een naauwkeurige beschryving van verscheyde nieuwe ontdekte zeeën, kusten, en landen, zo in Amerika, Asia, als Afrika; benevens veele nuttelyke aanmerkingen ontrent de stroomen, winden, havens, diepten, engtens en andere fraye waarnemingen en bysonderheden, zo van bereisde als voor dese, onbereisde gewesten. Alom doormengt met de beschrijving der inwoonders, aardt, zeden en plegtigheden derzer vreemde volkeren; midsgaders derselver landsdouwen, vrugten, gewassen, dieren, en andere seldsaamheden. Uyt het Engelsch in't Nederduyts overgebragt door W. Sewel.
Description: Amsterdam, Andries van Damme en Johannes Ratelband, 1717.4 volumes in 1. 4to. Old vellum (new endpapers), with morocco title label on spine, new ties. With title-page printed in red and black, 2 engraved allegorical titles, 16 engraved maps (10 folding) and 24 engraved plates (3 folding; few blank margins restored) by Casper Luiken and Jacob Lamsvelt. 12,394,(10); (8),284; (8),74,(5); 96 pp.Second Dutch edition; first published in Dutch in 's Gravenhage 1698-1704; first published in English in 1697 A new voyage round the world. - 'William Dampier (1652-1715) was the best known, and probably the most intelligent, of the famous group of buccaneers that tormented the Spaniards in the South Sea from 1680 to 1720' (Hill I, p.75). Dampier's descriptions of his wide-ranging buccaneering travels (he sailed around the world three times) include the account of the first English visit to Australia in 1688. His voyages marked the beginning of British scientific exploration of the Pacific. Countries visited are in America the West-Indies, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Brazil (including the earliest written description of Bahia), in Africa the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Cape Verd and in Asia the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and Formosa, Australia and various islands in the Pacific. - Age-browned, otherwise a fine copy.Tiele 290; Cat. NHSM I, p.135; European Americana V, p.214; Sabin 18388; Borba de Moraes I, p.242; Mendelssohn I, p.409-10; SAB II, p.10; Van Eeghen-van der Kellen 319; Howgego pp.294-298.
Keywords: Africa America Asia Dutch maritime history Jubileum cat. detiger maritime history piracy shipwrecks
Price: EUR 1925.00 = appr. US$ 2092.18 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 15995
- Book number: 15995