Dec 04, 2006 - Sale 2096

Sale 2096 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 11,400
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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
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; 34 (of 36) double-page engraved plates and 4 (of 6) folding double-page maps (double-hemispheric world map by Petrus Plancius, southeast Asia, east Africa, west Africa); lacks two plates (Portuguese women promenading and Brahmin wedding) and two maps (Red Sea and America). [8], 205 [i. e., 206]; [4], 181 [i. e., 185], [1]; [2], 86 [i. e., 80], [2] pages, including portrait of the author (crudely hand-colored) and final blank. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 305x198 mm, modern gilt-panelled black calf with green calf lettering piece; text heavily toned with some light marginal dampstaining, faint institutional stamp on verso of general title, maps and the large views of Goa and Angra generally trimmed to plate marks or borders, with scattered stains and partial separation at folds. Amsterdam: Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch, 1619
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Second edition in French of the first part, and first 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. "The first part concerns his own experiences in India . . . The second part contains a collection of routes to India and America . . . The third part consists of a coast pilot and descriptive geography of Africa and America . . . As a traveler, as a writer, and as a pleader for overseas expansion, Linschoten remains the leading geographical figure in Renaissance Holland" (Penrose). The Plancius world map used in editions of this work was the first to incorporate elaborate pictorial vignettes. Alden 619/74; Penrose, page 311; Shirley 187; Tiele-Muller, pages 98-99.