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LINSCHOTEN, JAN HUYGEN VAN. Histoire de la Navigation . . . Deuxiesme edition augmentee. Engraved historiated border on titles of first 2 parts, large engraved vignette on title of third part; 33 (of 36) double-page engraved plates; lacks plates 6 (La Ville de Goa), 33 (L'Isle de S. Helene), 36 (La Ville d'Angra), and all 6 maps. [8], 205 [i. e., 206]; [4], 181 [i. e., 185], [1]; [2], 86 [i. e., 80], [2] pages, including portrait of the author and final blank. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 291x191 mm, modern leather panelled in blind with arabesque centerpiece on covers; contents washed with light residual toning, small portion excised from leaf after general title and restored with text supplied in manuscript, plate 34 loose, light dampstaining on final blank. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1619
Second edition in French of the first part, dealing primarily with Linschoten's experiences in Portuguese India, and first edition in French of the second and third parts (Le Grand Routier de Mer, on sailing routes to the East, and Description de l'Amérique, on the New World). The most influential Renaissance work on East and West Indian navigation and trade, it was originally published in 1595-96 in Dutch. Alden 619/74; Penrose, page 311; Shirley 187; Tiele-Muller 87.
