Author: [ISAAK COMMELIN; RENé AUGUSTIN CONSTANTIN DE RENNEVILLE]
Title: Recueil des Voyages qui ont servi a l'etablissement et aux progres de la compagnie des Indes Orientales, Formees dans les Provinces Unies des Pais-bas. [Volume 1]
Description: Amsterdam, Estienne Roger. 1702, First French Edition. Hardcover, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, [44], 688 pages, frontispiece, 1 plate and 14 folding maps. Volume I. 1cm at bottom of the map of Spitsbergen is trimmed off. Contemporary binding: vellum spine papered boards, handwritten title on spine. Dutch voyages to Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla and the Straits of Weygats in the Arctic between 1591 and 1595 and the first two voyages of the Dutch to the East Indies by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Also the voyage of Seebald de Weert. We also have volumes 5 and 6 in stock. Good.

Keywords: Spitzbergen, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Straits of Weygats, Java, Bali


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