Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 381

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SOUTH AMERICA.) [Noort, Olivier van.] [Description du penible Voyage faict entour de l'Univers ou Globe terrestre.] 21 (of 25) maps and views in text. Folio, disbound; soiling, moderate dampstaining, several page faults, crude coloring on one view, lacking 4 leaves (title page, a3, c1, and c4). Should be seen. (JCB) [Amsterdam, 1602]
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first french edition. The captain's account of the first Dutch circumnavigation of the globe, undertaken from 1598 to 1601. Van Noort traveled along the coast of Brazil, through the Straits of Magellan, and up along the coasts of Chile and Peru before crossing the Pacific. The six American illustrations in this fragmentary copy include the 1599 view of the harbor at Rio de Janeiro; the views of São Sebastião, Santa Clara, and Porto de Seguro; the map of Chile; and the map of Peru and Brazil. "Of the utmost rarity"--Sabin 55436. A complete copy sold in 2007 for $45,600. Borba de Moraes page 617; European Americana 602/74; JCB II:16; Palau 193091.