Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fret

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Amsterdami : apud Petrum Kærium, 1619. Second Latin edition. Small quarto, contemporary papered boards (rubbed); pp [8], 1-24, 17-71, nine folding maps and plates; title with large vignette of ships and a city and original owner s annotation This is in Dutch in ye. long booke pa : 145, [E.?] G. ; as in other copies, pages 14 and 15 misnumbered 4 and 5 (but emended in the original owner s hand); a fine copy in an unsophisticated contemporary binding, housed in a custom gilt-lettered morocco and cloth clamshell box. The rare second Latin edition of the account of Schouten and Le Maire s important voyage. Schouten and Le Maire s expedition was sponsored by a group of Dutch merchants known as the Australian Company, a consortium in competition with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The expedition s primary aim was to search for Terra Australis from the east, and it was the last seventeenth-century voyage to do so. In entering the Pacific from the Atlantic in 1616, Schouten and Le Maire sailed to the south of the Straits of Magellan, naming Cape Horn and discovering a new navigable passage to its south. Striking out westward across the Pacific in search of Terra Australis, they sailed through the Tuamotu archipelago, and were the first Europeans to visit the islands of Tonga. The expedition charted a substantial part of the coasts of New Ireland and New Guinea, before eventually reaching Batavia. The subjects of the maps and plates are: Map of the world in two hemispheres; Map o

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