Accession number
PML 3797.2
Creator
Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon, -1625, author.
Published
Oppenheimii : Typis Hieronymi Galleri, anno MDCXIX [1619-1620]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Constitutes the eleventh part, sole issue of the sole Latin edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English.
Part 11 contains accounts of two voyages around the world, one made by Schouten during 1615-1617, the second by Joris van Spilbergen in 1614-1618. A Latin edition of Schouten's account was published in 1619, but De Bry's version was probably based on an earlier Dutch edition. De Bry's edition of Spilbergen's voyage is much abridged from the account published in Leyden in 1619.
Title page vignette: a map of the two hemispheres, and portraits of Ferdinand Magellan, Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, Francis Drake, Olivier van Noort, Thomas Cavendish, and Joris van Spilbergen.
First series of illustrations has a separate letterpress title page on a1 recto: "Sequuntur verae vivaeque rerum praecipuarum in hac Guilhelmi Schouten per Australem Oceanum navigatione gestarum imagines, ad unidecimam Indiae Occidentalis partem referendae. Additae sunt unicuique figurae breves descriptiones in gratiam novarum rerum cupidi lectoris in aes accuratè incisae & ob oculos positae studio atque operâ Johann-Theodori de Bry civis ac bibliopolae Oppenhemensis." Imprint: "Oppenheimii Typis Hieronymi Galleri. anno MDCXIX." Illustrations are numbered I-IX, printed on recto only, with letterpress descriptive text below; signed a2 recto through b6 recto.
Appendix to part 11 has a separate title page, with engraved vignette showing a fleet under full sail in the middle distance with two seated figures. Title: "Americae tomi undecimi appendix. Seu, Admirandae nauigationis a Georgio a Spilbergen, classis Belgicae cum potestate praefecti, per fretum Magellanicum & Mare meridionale, ab anno 1614. us[que] ad annum 1618. inclusiuè peractae, descriptio. Qua novi per fretrum Magellanicum et mare meridionale in Indiam Orientalem transitus, incognitarum que hactenus terrarum & gentium ut & omnium quae terra mariq[ue] acciderunt & visa sunt memorabilium, explicatio continetur, additis, pulcherrimis & nunquam antea visis figuris in aes incisis, auctore M. Gothardo Arthusio Dantiscano. Francofurti, Typis Ioannis Hoferi, Sumptibus Ioannis-Theodor de Bry, anno M. D C. XX."
Second series of illustrations has a separate letterpress title page on ²a1 recto: "Sequuntur verae vivaeque incognitarum hactenus regionum insularum et genitum praeliorum item nocte dieque, terra et mari commissorum nec non aliarum quae Georgio à Spilbergen occurere rerum delineationes atq[ue] imagines, nunquam antea visae: additis in novarum rerum cupidi lectoris gratiam luculentis earum descriptionibus, in eos accurata incisae atq[ue] ob oculos positae, studio & opera M. Gothardi Arthusii Dantiscani. Francofurti, Typis Ioannis Hoferi, sumptibus Ioannis Theodori de Bry. anno MDCXX." Illustrations are numbered I-XX, printed in recto only (expect the first as the second, "Delineato freti Magellanici" is a two-page plate), with letterpress descriptive text below, and which are signed ²a2 recto through ²e5 recto.
First folding map (20 x 44 cm) has inscriptions in German, Latin, and French, lower centre: the Latin: "Tabula Hydrographica Maris Australis vulgo del Zur, ductum navigationis Wilhelmi Schouten et terras ac insular ab oe ibiden detectas demo[n]strans." Map of Willem Corneliszoon Schouten's journey across the Pacific Ocean. Includes the western coast of South America. Cartographic elements include compass roses and lines of latitude and longitude. Includes ships.
Second folding map (21 x 31 cm) has inscriptions in German, Latin, and French, lower center: the Latin: "Novae Guineae Tabula, novissimé lustratae et conscripte a Wilhelmo Schouten Hornano Batavo." Map of the northern coast of New Guinea showing the route taken by Schouten.
Third folding map: two page map of the East Indies: Inscription, lower left-hand: Mardi India.
Signatures: A-E⁴ F⁶ (F6 blank) a⁴ b⁶, ²A-C⁴ D⁶ (D6 blank), ²a-d⁴ e⁶ (e6 blank).
Initials; head- and tail-pieces; printed marginalia.
Library's copy lacks 3 blanks and 3rd map which is bound after the 3rd leaf of part 12.
Part 11 contains accounts of two voyages around the world, one made by Schouten during 1615-1617, the second by Joris van Spilbergen in 1614-1618. A Latin edition of Schouten's account was published in 1619, but De Bry's version was probably based on an earlier Dutch edition. De Bry's edition of Spilbergen's voyage is much abridged from the account published in Leyden in 1619.
Title page vignette: a map of the two hemispheres, and portraits of Ferdinand Magellan, Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, Francis Drake, Olivier van Noort, Thomas Cavendish, and Joris van Spilbergen.
First series of illustrations has a separate letterpress title page on a1 recto: "Sequuntur verae vivaeque rerum praecipuarum in hac Guilhelmi Schouten per Australem Oceanum navigatione gestarum imagines, ad unidecimam Indiae Occidentalis partem referendae. Additae sunt unicuique figurae breves descriptiones in gratiam novarum rerum cupidi lectoris in aes accuratè incisae & ob oculos positae studio atque operâ Johann-Theodori de Bry civis ac bibliopolae Oppenhemensis." Imprint: "Oppenheimii Typis Hieronymi Galleri. anno MDCXIX." Illustrations are numbered I-IX, printed on recto only, with letterpress descriptive text below; signed a2 recto through b6 recto.
Appendix to part 11 has a separate title page, with engraved vignette showing a fleet under full sail in the middle distance with two seated figures. Title: "Americae tomi undecimi appendix. Seu, Admirandae nauigationis a Georgio a Spilbergen, classis Belgicae cum potestate praefecti, per fretum Magellanicum & Mare meridionale, ab anno 1614. us[que] ad annum 1618. inclusiuè peractae, descriptio. Qua novi per fretrum Magellanicum et mare meridionale in Indiam Orientalem transitus, incognitarum que hactenus terrarum & gentium ut & omnium quae terra mariq[ue] acciderunt & visa sunt memorabilium, explicatio continetur, additis, pulcherrimis & nunquam antea visis figuris in aes incisis, auctore M. Gothardo Arthusio Dantiscano. Francofurti, Typis Ioannis Hoferi, Sumptibus Ioannis-Theodor de Bry, anno M. D C. XX."
Second series of illustrations has a separate letterpress title page on ²a1 recto: "Sequuntur verae vivaeque incognitarum hactenus regionum insularum et genitum praeliorum item nocte dieque, terra et mari commissorum nec non aliarum quae Georgio à Spilbergen occurere rerum delineationes atq[ue] imagines, nunquam antea visae: additis in novarum rerum cupidi lectoris gratiam luculentis earum descriptionibus, in eos accurata incisae atq[ue] ob oculos positae, studio & opera M. Gothardi Arthusii Dantiscani. Francofurti, Typis Ioannis Hoferi, sumptibus Ioannis Theodori de Bry. anno MDCXX." Illustrations are numbered I-XX, printed in recto only (expect the first as the second, "Delineato freti Magellanici" is a two-page plate), with letterpress descriptive text below, and which are signed ²a2 recto through ²e5 recto.
First folding map (20 x 44 cm) has inscriptions in German, Latin, and French, lower centre: the Latin: "Tabula Hydrographica Maris Australis vulgo del Zur, ductum navigationis Wilhelmi Schouten et terras ac insular ab oe ibiden detectas demo[n]strans." Map of Willem Corneliszoon Schouten's journey across the Pacific Ocean. Includes the western coast of South America. Cartographic elements include compass roses and lines of latitude and longitude. Includes ships.
Second folding map (21 x 31 cm) has inscriptions in German, Latin, and French, lower center: the Latin: "Novae Guineae Tabula, novissimé lustratae et conscripte a Wilhelmo Schouten Hornano Batavo." Map of the northern coast of New Guinea showing the route taken by Schouten.
Third folding map: two page map of the East Indies: Inscription, lower left-hand: Mardi India.
Signatures: A-E⁴ F⁶ (F6 blank) a⁴ b⁶, ²A-C⁴ D⁶ (D6 blank), ²a-d⁴ e⁶ (e6 blank).
Initials; head- and tail-pieces; printed marginalia.
Library's copy lacks 3 blanks and 3rd map which is bound after the 3rd leaf of part 12.
Description
49, [1] p., [1], IX leaves, 34, [2] pages, [1], XX, [1] leaves, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 37 cm (folio)
Provenance
Collected by O. Rich; H. C. Murphy; his sale, March 1884, no. 379; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
PML 3794, 3796-97: 1/4 green morocco over marbled boards. Bound by Hering of London. PML 3795: 1/4 brown morocco over light brown cloth, gilded edges.
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