Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
BRY, JOHANN THEODOR and JOHANN ISRAEL DE. Quinta pars Indiae orientalis. General title within engraved historiated architectural border; 20 half-page engraved illustrations, with the key letters in the last corrected in ink as usual. [8], 60 pages; [1], 20, [1] leaves, including blanks )(4 and e6. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 331x202 mm, 19th-century 1/2 leather gilt, bottom of spine worn; contents browned, ink blot in lower outer corner of general title; uncut. Signature stamp and bookplate of John Carter Brown (with JCB Library release stamp). Frankfurt am Main: Matthaeus Becker, 1601

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first edition, first issue, of the fifth volume of the Little Voyages, containing an account of the 1598-1600 Dutch expedition to the East Indies under Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck and Wijbrand van Warwijck. Church 212.