Tre Navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi, e Zelandesi Al Settentrione nella Norvegia, Moscovia, e Tartaria verso il Catai, e Regno de Sini, doue scopersero il Mare di Veygatz, La Nuova Zembla,

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This is one of two issues of Giunio Pariso’s Italian translation printed in Venice in italic characters in 1599, the other by publisher Gioan Battista Ciotti. A French and a Latin edition were published in 1598. Both follow the original Dutch edition, (as does this version), which was an oblong quarto issued by Claesz without a date; yet it is assumed in November or December of 1597, as the third expedition did not return to Amsterdam until the 1st November of that year. In this edition, the plates are re-engraved in a smaller format and as a consequence, it being their first use, the impressions are extremely fine and dark. Gerrit de Veer’s account of Willem Barents’ three voyages in search of northern trade routes to the Orient in 1594, 1595, and 1596 . The idea for these voyages was enthusiastically promoted by Oliver Brunel who had made a land journey through the Samoyed territory to Siberia, before making a coasting voyage as far as the river Ob. De Veer served as mate and chronicler on the second and third voyages. As Boies Penrose remarks: “Brunel’s travels led to the fitting out of a fleet in 1594, headed by Willem Barents, who ranks in history as one of the greatest Arctic navigators. With Barents went Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, the celebrated traveller to the East. Their first venture took the Dutch the whole length of Novaya Zemlya, to its northern tip, after which Barents retraced his course to Vaigatz, and passed through the Kara Sea as far as the latitude of th

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