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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; 30 (of 36) double-page plates; lacks plates 1, 6, 33-36, 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, 302x194 mm, early 19th-century vellum boards, front joint partly cracked; repair on verso of plates 19 and 24 and in blank lower outer corner of M6, stains on F2 and verso of plate opposite, dark stain in upper outer corners through second half of volume. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
Third edition in French of the first part, dealing primarily with Linschoten's experiences in Portuguese India, and second 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 638/67; Penrose, page 311; Tiele-Muller, page 100.
