Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 264

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Schouten, Wouter (1638-1704)
Reys-Togten naar en door Oost-Indien.

Amsterdam: by Gerrit Tielenburg en Jan 'Tlam, 1740.

Large quarto, third edition, title page printed in black and red, added engraved title, engraved author portrait, illustrated throughout with fine etchings by Kip and Decker, including four custom vignettes, twenty-four full-paged illustrations, and nineteen large folding plates, bound in later half leather, marbled paper boards, 9 x 7 in.

Schouten traveled as a surgeon to the Dutch East Indies in the 1650s and '60s. The plates in this lively narrative portray shipwrecks, interactions with indigenous peoples, battles, and traditional cultural events as witnessed by the Dutch traders.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.