Author: GERRITSZ., Hessel.
Title: The Arctic North-East and West passage. Detectio freti Hudsoni or Hessel Gerritsz's collection of tracts by himself, Massa and De Quir on the N.E. and W. passage, Siberia and Australia. Reproduced, with the maps, in photolithography in Dutch and Latin after the editions of 1612 and 1613. Augmented with a new English translation by Fred. John Millard and an essay on the origin and design of this collection by S. Muller.
Description: Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Co., 1878.4to. Original boards. With maps and facsimiles.'This work is of scholarly importance to the history of Australia, Siberia and Canada, and to the search for the Northeast passage and the Northwest passage to the Orient' (Hill 692). Tiele 375; Cat. NHSM I, p.310; Ferguson 9885a.

Keywords: America Arctic Australia Dutch travel Pole