[TASMAN] Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het Noorden en Oosten van Japan,

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volgens het journaal gehouden door C.J. Coen, op het schip Castricum Met de daarbij behoorende kaart en eenige fac-similés, en geographische en ethnographische aanteekeningen, tevens dienende tot een zeemansgids naar Jezo, Krafto en de Kurilen, en stukken over de taal en voortbrengselen der Aino-landen, van Jonkheer P.F. von Siebold. Amsterdam : Frederik Muller, 1858. First edition. Octavo, lettered wrappers over cards, rebacked with cloth spine, endpapers replaced, ex-libris bookplate for W. Z .Mulder to front pastedown and bookseller s labels of Isseido, Tokyo; pp. 440, large folding map printed in colour, folding plate of signatures; text in Dutch; edges uncut; a fine copy. The first published edition of the account of Maarten Gerritszoon de Vries 1643 voyage to the North Pacific, based on the manuscript journal of Cornelis Janszoon Coen rediscovered by researcher Pieter Arend Leupe (see footnote) in the Dutch East India Company Archives, having lain forgotten for more than two centuries. The second part of the present work, by the German natural scientist and traveller Philipp Franz von Siebold, which was published in English the following year as Geographical and ethnographical elucidations to the discoveries of Maerten Gerrits Vries , contains references to the earlier related voyage of Quast (1639), on which Abel Janszoon Tasman had sailed as second-in-command, in charge of the Gracht just three years prior to his becoming the first European to discover Tasmania, in No

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