LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611). Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hughes de Linschot Hollandois aux Indes Orientales. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638.
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611). Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hughes de Linschot Hollandois aux Indes Orientales. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638.
The third French edition of "the most important of the firsthand accounts published independently of the great travel collections” (Lach). Linschoten traveled to Goa as a clerk between 1583 and 1589, and was with Willem Barents on his second voyage to the Kara Sea in 1594-1595. This practical experience lent authority to the present work, which remains one of the most important of travel books, printed in numerous languages following the first edition in Dutch, 1595-1596. Linschoten's work contains the most comprehensive account of the East and West Indies available at the end of the 16th century, but is particularly important for its information about Goa, where Linschoten was able to glean valuable intelligence from the secretive Portuguese colonial apparatus. The first French edition was illustrated by reduced engravings based on De Bry’s famous series, but the later French editions restored them to their original folio size, as here, and as such are more desirable. JCB (3) II:271; Palau 138584; Sabin 41373; see Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe, vol. 1, pp. 196-204 & 482-90.
Three parts in one volume, folio (303 x 194mm). 3 letterpress titles, 2 of which within elaborate engraved surrounds, the third with engraved vignette; portrait of Linschoten on verso of index leaf, 6 folding engraved maps; 36 engraved views and plans, folding or double-page, with plans of Angra and Goa each bound as 2 separate sheets (some maps reinforced at folds or with small stub tears, engraved view with repaired tear, a few small paper repairs, corner dampstain). Modern vellum.
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611). Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hughes de Linschot Hollandois aux Indes Orientales. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638.
The third French edition of "the most important of the firsthand accounts published independently of the great travel collections” (Lach). Linschoten traveled to Goa as a clerk between 1583 and 1589, and was with Willem Barents on his second voyage to the Kara Sea in 1594-1595. This practical experience lent authority to the present work, which remains one of the most important of travel books, printed in numerous languages following the first edition in Dutch, 1595-1596. Linschoten's work contains the most comprehensive account of the East and West Indies available at the end of the 16th century, but is particularly important for its information about Goa, where Linschoten was able to glean valuable intelligence from the secretive Portuguese colonial apparatus. The first French edition was illustrated by reduced engravings based on De Bry’s famous series, but the later French editions restored them to their original folio size, as here, and as such are more desirable. JCB (3) II:271; Palau 138584; Sabin 41373; see Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe, vol. 1, pp. 196-204 & 482-90.
Three parts in one volume, folio (303 x 194mm). 3 letterpress titles, 2 of which within elaborate engraved surrounds, the third with engraved vignette; portrait of Linschoten on verso of index leaf, 6 folding engraved maps; 36 engraved views and plans, folding or double-page, with plans of Angra and Goa each bound as 2 separate sheets (some maps reinforced at folds or with small stub tears, engraved view with repaired tear, a few small paper repairs, corner dampstain). Modern vellum.
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