Linschoten, Jan Huygen van.

Linschoten, Jan Huygen van.

Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien inhoudende een corte beschryvinghe der selver Landen en Zeen-custen. [...]. - Description of the entire Custe van Guinea [...]- Reys-eschrift of the navigations of the Portugaloysers in Orient. 3 parts in 1 volume. With 1 gest. portrait, 3 (2 repeated.) gest. Title vignettes (including one with world map of Hondius), 5 (instead of 6) folded. Copper maps by van Langren and van Deutecom, 34 (instead of 36) copper plates (30 double leaf gr., 4 folded.) by J. and B. van Deutecum to Linschoten.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz, 1596 and (Reys-heading:) 1595. Folio. [4] page 160, [41] page 41, [1] w. Bl., 147 p., [4] Bll. Flexible parchment ribbon, currently with old hand title on the lid and black embossed monogram "OSF" (slightly dusty and stained, lid slightly bent open, H lid with small missing part, clasps
removed).
Sabin 41356 - Church 252 - Borba de Moraes I, 416ff. - Shirley 182 (vignette from Hondius) - Cat. Nederl. Scheepvaart Mus. I, 170 - BM STC, Dutch Books p. 118 - Walravens 10 - Tiele, Mémoire bibliographique 83-91 - not with Adams. - First editions. - The large world map, the view of Goa (after p. 42) and the first map of St. Helena (after p. 140) are missing. - The existing maps are copies of early manuscript maps of the Bartolomeus Lasso (1590). They show South America with the Antilles; the west coast of Africa; east coast of Africa with Madagascar; the northern Indian Ocean with Arabia and India; as well as China and Indonesia. The panels with plans and views of St. Helena and Agra, as well as traditional costumes and costumes, representations of natives, ships, plants and animals. The title vignettes to Itinerario and Reys-gheschrift with (repeated) decorative ship depictions, in the corners with views of Antwerp, Amsterdam, Middelburg and Enkhuisen. The title of the Beschryvinghe with the Hondius world map in 2 hemispheres. - Linschoten (1563-1611) went to India in 1581 for six years, where he worked as secretary to the Archbishop of Goa, Vicente Fonseca. This prominent position gave him access to the nautical charts of the Portuguese, who had kept them secret for over a century, and secretly made copies of them. On the return journey to Lisbon, Linschoten arrived at the Portuguese naval base on the island of St. Helena in May 1589 and spent another two years on the Azores. On his return, with the support of the Amsterdam publisher Cornelis Claesz, he wrote his three reports presented here, which contain a large number of sailing routes, not only for the routes between Portugal and India, but also between India, China and Japan, and are among the most famous travel works of the early modern period. "His Itinerario was particularly valuable for Portugal's competitors in the spice trade, who now had a better insight into the routes of Portuguese ships and the colonial system". (Walravens). - Somewhat browned and fingerstained, in places somewhat foxed, the maps partly with mostly backed small margin or fold tears. The coppers throughout in strong, burred impressions. - Hs. number on first title, remains of etched ex libris on mirror.
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