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Linschoten, Jan Huygen van. Histoire de la Navigation... aux Indes Orientales. Le gran Routier de Mer. Description de l'Amerique. (avec annotations de Paludanus) Amsterdam, Cloppenburg. 1638. € 44.000
(Tiele 89; John Carter Brown II, 454). Folio, original full calf binding, spine in compartments, heighthened with gold. Three parts in one volume 4pp, 206 pp; 4pp, 181pp; 1pp, 86 pp (complete). Three engraved title pages. One portrait. Six folding maps. Thirty six double page & folding plates, among them the large folding views of Goa, Angra and St Helena (complete).
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Spilbergen, J. van. Speculum orientalis.... Altera Jacobus le Maire in mare Australe. Leiden, Geelkerken 1619. € 22.000
(Sabin: 89450; Tiele 226). Cuarto, oblong. Modern dark blue Marocco. 174 pp (including genuine blank, P4). Engraved title page. Two folding maps (world and SE Asia). 25 full page and double page prints. Complete. First Latin edition of Spilbergens circumnavigation (the fifth ever after Magelhaes; Drake and Cavendish and van Noordt) between 1614 and 1618. Includes moreover the voyage of Schouten and le Maire who discovered le Maires Street (1615).
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