Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.

A$90,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à présent descouverts par les Portugais: observations des Coustumes singularitez de delà, autres declarations Troisieme édition, augmentée . Amsterdam : Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts in one volume, folio (310 x 200 mm), contemporary mottled calf (rubbed), spine in compartments with ornate gilt decoration and lettering; edges speckled red; three letterpress titles (two with elaborate engraved allegorical borders, the third with engraved vignette); first part with portrait of Linschoten to verso of index leaf, 7 folding engraved maps and 28 engraved plates and views by Johann and Baptiste van Doetecom (after Linschoten), folding or double-page and mounted on guards; second part Le Grand Routier de Mer with 6 folding maps and 3 double-page or folding plates; third part Description de l Amerique ; in total 44 maps and views engraved by or after P. Plancius, A. F. van Langren, H. F. van Langren or the van Doetecom brothers; the first title bears the early ownership signature Larochefoucauld and the stamp of the Bibliothèque du Château de La Roche-Guyon; contents clean and fresh, a superb example. The La Roche-Guyon copy of the desirable third French edition of the most comprehensive illustrated travelogue of the seventeenth century, reprinted from the Amsterdam edition of 1619, with the magnificent plates and maps in folio format, and with a commentary by Bernardus Paludanus. In the opinion of Lach it is the most important

• Binding: Hardcover

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