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LINSCHOTEN, JAN HUYGEN VAN. Histoire de la Navigation . . . Troisiesme edition augmentee. Engraved historiated border on titles of first 2 parts, large engraved vignette on title of third part; 32 (of 36) double-page engraved plates; lacks plates 6, 33, 34, 36 and all 6 maps. [8], 206; [4], 181, [1]; [2], 86 [i. e., 80], [2] pages, including portrait of the author. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 301x190 mm, 18th-century mottled calf gilt, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip; light dampstaining in bottom portion of contents throughout. Marcel Destombes bookplate. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
Third edition in French of the first part, and second edition in French of the second and third parts (Le Grand Routier de Mer and Description de l'Amérique). Linschoten's influential work on the exploration of Asia, Africa, and the New World was originally published in 1595-96 in Dutch. Alden 638/67; Penrose, page 311; Tiele-Muller, page 100.
