Korte historiael, ende journaels aenteyckeninge, van verscheyden voyagiens in de vier deelen des wereldts-ronde, : als Europa, Africa, Asia, ende Amerika gedaen, / door D. David Pietersz. de Vries, artillerij-meester vande Ed: M: Heeren gecommitteerde raden van Staten van West-Vrieslandt ende 't Noorder-quartier. Waer in verhaelt werd wat batailjes hy te water gedaen heeft: yder landtschap zijn gedierte, gevogelt, wat soorte van dissen, ende wat wilde menschen naer 't leven geconterfaeyt, ende van de bosschen ende ravieren [sic] met haer vruchten..

Accession number

PML 3422

Creator

Vries, David Pietersz. de, active 1593-1655.

Published

t'Hoorn, : Voor David Pietersz. de Vries, artillerij-meester van't Noorder-quartier. ; Tot Alckmaer, : By Symon Cornelisz. Brekegeest,, Anno 1655..

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes

Portrait of author by Vischer.
Short history and notes of a journal kept during several voyages undertaken in Europe, Africa, Asia, and America. The animals, the birds, the different sorts of fishes and some savages drawn from life, and the forests, the rivers and the fruits.
Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
P. 184 misnumbered 144.
Title page vignette; author's coat of arms on verso of title page.

Description

[8], 190, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm

Provenance

From the library of Theodore Irwin; Pierpont Morgan.

Binding

Brown morocco by Pratt.

Classification

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