Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 25,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
[LODEWYCKSZ, WILLEM.] Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam Orientalem. Engraved map of Europe, Africa, and Asia on title; 48 half-page engraved illustrations; woodcut charts and coastline views in text; lacks the infrequently found folding plate of the bazaar at Bantam. 51, [1] leaves. bound with: [VEER, GERRIT DE.] Diarium nauticum, seu vera descriptio trium navigationum . . . factarum a Hollandicis & Zelandicis navibus ad septentrionem, supra Norvagiam, Moscoviam & Tartariam, versus Catthay & Sinarum regna. Engraving with multiple scenes on title; 27 half-page illustrations; 4 maps, including one full-page of Novaya Zemlya. 41 [i. e., 42] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 310x235 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, soiling and stains on covers, joints and bottom of spine slightly chipped; marginal toning and soiling through much of volume, repaired clean tear in title, outer portion of illustration on G1r reinforced on verso, and repaired clean tear in G4 in first work, dampstains on last leaf in second work. List of late 17th-century works on exploration and geography in contemporary hand in ink on recto and verso of rear endleaf. Amsterdam: Cornelis Nicolai, 1598; 1598

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first editions in latin of important first-hand exploration narratives originally published the same year in Dutch. The first describes the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies, carried out in 1595-97 under Cornelis de Houtman, which opened the way for the Dutch colonial enterprise in the East. The second describes the 3 Dutch voyages to the Arctic under Willem Barentsz in 1594-97 in search of a Northeast Passage to the East Indies. Veer took part in the second and third of these, and his book is the only primary source for the 1596-97 final voyage, during which Barentsz and his men were stranded for the winter on Novaya Zemlya after their ship was crushed by ice. Tiele-Muller 112, 95.