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Year:: 1601
Contributor:: Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611; Strobaeus, Bilibaldus.; Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623; Houtman, Cornelis de, -1599; Lodewycksz, Willem, active 16th century; Veer, Gerrit de.; Rhode Island Historical Society.
Subject:: as----- > a-io--- > r------; Linschoten, Jan Huygen van > 1563-1611; Houtman, Cornelis de > -1599; Veer, Gerrit de; East Indies > Description and travel; India > Description and travel; Indonesia > Description and travel; Brazil > Description and travel; Arctic regions; Northeast Passage; Nova︠i︡a Zeml︠i︡a (Russia) > Description and travel; Lapland > Description and travel; Greenland > Description and travel; Imprint 1601.; Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Extent:: [8], 170, [6] p., [68] leaves of plates (1 folded, 1 double, 2 double folded) : ill., maps, plan ; 30 cm. (fol.)

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Notes:: Fideli studio et opera de Germanico in Latinum translata, & bono ordine disposita à Bilibaldo Strobaeo Silesio. Adiectae sunt huic operi multae eaeque accuratissimae tabula seu mappa chorographicae, cum iconibus alijs quoque elegantissimis, exacta industria in aes incisa per Ioan. Theodor. & Ioan. Israel. de Bry fratres: quorum sumptibus quoque hoc opus editum est. Illustrissimo principi, ac Dn. domino Friderico IV. comiti Palatino ad Rhenum, S. Imp. Archidap. & Elect. &c. nuncupata.; Constitutes the third part of Theodor de Bry's Small voyages, printed in 13 parts and an Appendix in Frankfurt am Main and Oppenheim from 1597 to 1633.; This work has been identified as the second issue of the first Latin edition of part three of the Small voyages by Church.; Colophon on p. [6], 3rd count, reads: Francofvrti imprimebat Matthaevs Becker svmptibvs Ioan. Theodor. et Ioan. Israel. de Bry, fratrum. Anno M. DCI.; There are three issues of the first Latin edition of part 3 listed by Church, all printed by Matthaeus Beckerus in Frankfurt am Main, 1601: the first issue contains a map of Nova Zembla on the verso of plate 58, following p. [3-4], 3rd count; the second edition has the verso of plate 58 blank; the third issue has several plates varying from those in the first issue and the inscriptions on the maps are only in German.; The first part is a translation of selections of: Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien / by Jan Hyugen van Linschoten, first printed Amsterdam, 1596.; "Indica historia, qva Hollandicarvm navivm cvrsvs, svccessvs et acta cvm explicatione religionis, morvm, ritvvm, et habitationis earum gentium, quas Hollandi adierunt: quae item apud easdem numismata, quae aromata, quae commercia vsitatiora sint: & quo insuper pretio singulae merces veneant, accuratè describuntur", p. 55-128, is a translation of: Verhael vande reyse by de hollandtsche schepen gedaen naer Oost Indien published by Barent Langenes, Middelburg, 1597. The voyage was made under the command of Cornelis de Houtman.; "Tertia pars navigationes tres discretas, trib. continvis annis per septentrionem svpra Novegiam, Mvscoviam et Tartariam, freto Weygatz & Noua Zembla detectis, ab Hollandis & Zelandis in Cathay & Chinarum regnum versus Orientem susceptas, describens", p. 129-170, is a translation of: Waarachtige beschrijving van drie seylagien, ter werelt noyt soo vreemt ghehoort, drie jaeren achter malcanderen deur de Hollandtsche ende Zeelandtsche schepen by noorden Noorweghen, Moscovia ende Tartaria, na de coninckrijcken van Catthai ende China ..., / by Gerrit de Veer, first printed Amsterdam, 1598.; This part contains (1) chapters 92-99 of Linschoten's voyages, translated by Bilibaldus Strobaeus. (2) The first chapters of an account of a voyage made to the East Indies in 1595-97 under the direction of Cornelius de Houtman. This is a translation of the German edition which the de Brys published in 1598. A Latin edition was printed at Amsterdam in 1598, but this was not used in this translation, which is inferior to it. (3) A journal of three voyages made by the Dutch in 1594-97, in their attempts to reach the East Indies by the north. This relation, written by Gerrit de Veer, was published in Amsterdam in 1598. A translation in Latin by Carolus Clusius Atrebatensis (Charles de l'Ecluse, d'Arras), which was published in the same year, was used, with many omissions, in this part. Cf. Church.; Also contains the first part of Willem Lodewijcksz's Navigatio Hollandorum in insulas Orientales, first printed Amsterdam, 1598, under title D'eerste boeck; Historie van Indien. Includes references to Brazil on p. 57. Cf. Alden.; "Icones sive Expressae et artifitiosae delineationes qvarvndam mapparvm, locorvm, maritimorvm, insvlarvm, vrbium, & populorum: quibus & horundem vitae, naturae, morum, habituumque descriptio adiuncta est: veluti haec omnia, in Indicâ nauigatione versus Orientem susceptâ, diligenter obseruata, adeóque tribus hisce Indiae Orientalis descriptae libris inserta sunt. Vbi mappis et iconibvs songvlis breuis quaedam & necessaria explicatio seorsim subdita est. Omnia scita et diligenti indvstria in aes incisa, et ob ocvlos posita à Ioan. Theod. & Ioan. Israele de Bry fratribus & ciuibus Francofurtensibus as Moenum", p. [3-4], 3rd count, has imprint: Francofvrti, Excvdebat Matthaevs Becker. Anno M. DCI. [1601]; Signatures: **⁴ (**1 verso, **4 blank) A-X⁴ chi² (chi2 blank) a1 (a1 verso blank) q3.; Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.; Contains 10 leaves of plates, 1 of which is folded, 1 double, and 2 double folded (one of which is a double folded map on 2 sheets bound between p. 54 and 55) and 58 numbered leaves of plates (two of which are double plates) which are signed a2-q2.

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Verhael vande reyse by de hollandtsche schepen gedaen naer Oost Indien. Latin:
Eerste boeck; Historie van Indien. Latin:
Waarachtige beschrijving van drie seylagien. Latin:

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"Tertia pars Indiae Orientalis: qua continentur I. Secunda pars nauigationum à Ioanne Hugone Lintschotano Hollando in Orientem susceptarum; & maximè situs illarum regionum, & in his insularum, fluminum, riparum, portuum, &c. tum in transitu, tum ipsa India sitorum: vbi iuxta etiam vniuersa, quae autor illic, & postea in reditu versus Hollandiam vidit & notauit, diligenter designantur: II. Nauigatio Hollandorum in insulas Orientales, Iavan & Sumatram: vbi pariter de moribus, vita, & religione incolarum quaedam haud iniucunda traduntur. III. Tres nauigationes Hollandorum in modò dictam Indiam per septentrionalem seu glacialem oceanum, vbi mira quaedam & stupenda denarrantur " (1601). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:580319/

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