LINSCHOTEN, JAN HUYGEN VAN....John Huighen Van Linschoten. His Discours of Voyages into ye easte & Weste Indies. Devided into Foure Bookes. London: [John Windet for] John Wolfe [1598]. Small folio, late eighteenth-century red morocco, covers with single gilt fillet border, GILT DEVICE OF SIR STEPHEN FOX, BARON HOLLAND , on upper cover, spine in six compartments of which four gilt, one morocco lettering-piece (of two, the second lacking) g.e., old restorations to head and tail of spine, joints cracking, extremities worn, covers rubbed, spine darkened, some soiling and occasional staining, a few leaves browned or foxed, rust hole to fol. C1 with loss of one letter, small worm track to gutter of quires F-H, a few repairs to gutters or margins obscuring catchwords, the world map with a triangular patch at inside edge, covering part of the cloud-border, the maps and plates with a few expertly repaired tears and some folds reinforced, 1 or 2 marginal tears to text leaves and to the Dutch plates, the outer edges of one of the copies of plate 3 cropped with slight loss to the image . FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by William Phillip, four books in one with continuous pagination and signatures, mostly black letter in double column, engraved title, 3 printed section titles with different engraved map vignettes, 10 folding engraved maps on 12 sheets, 4 folding engraved plates, including duplicate copies of double-sheet map no. 8 ("A discription of Aegipt") and plate no. 3 (of the island of Ascension), 4 woodcut maps in text, woodcut initials and ornaments, PLUS 29 DOUBLE-PAGE OR FOLDING PLATES INSERTED FROM THE ORIGINAL DUTCH EDITION and one smaller folding plate from an unidentified English work. "This is the first work outside of Portugal and Spain to provide detailed practical information on how to get to, and carry on trade with America and India. The work was indispensable to sailors on the route to the Indies; it provided a dictionary of exotic commodities, of national trading methods, etc. Linschoten's work, along with Hakluyt's, served as a direct stimulus to the building of the vast English and Dutch overseas empires,"--Streeter sale I, 31; Church 321; Sabin 41374; STC 15691; Hill p. 182; Alden 598/57; Borba de Moraes, p. 488. . Provenance : Sir Stephen Fox, Baron Holland (1745-1774), as above; a few contemporary marginal annotations.
LINSCHOTEN, JAN HUYGEN VAN....John Huighen Van Linschoten. His Discours of Voyages into ye easte & Weste Indies. Devided into Foure Bookes. London: [John Windet for] John Wolfe [1598]. Small folio, late eighteenth-century red morocco, covers with single gilt fillet border, GILT DEVICE OF SIR STEPHEN FOX, BARON HOLLAND , on upper cover, spine in six compartments of which four gilt, one morocco lettering-piece (of two, the second lacking) g.e., old restorations to head and tail of spine, joints cracking, extremities worn, covers rubbed, spine darkened, some soiling and occasional staining, a few leaves browned or foxed, rust hole to fol. C1 with loss of one letter, small worm track to gutter of quires F-H, a few repairs to gutters or margins obscuring catchwords, the world map with a triangular patch at inside edge, covering part of the cloud-border, the maps and plates with a few expertly repaired tears and some folds reinforced, 1 or 2 marginal tears to text leaves and to the Dutch plates, the outer edges of one of the copies of plate 3 cropped with slight loss to the image . FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by William Phillip, four books in one with continuous pagination and signatures, mostly black letter in double column, engraved title, 3 printed section titles with different engraved map vignettes, 10 folding engraved maps on 12 sheets, 4 folding engraved plates, including duplicate copies of double-sheet map no. 8 ("A discription of Aegipt") and plate no. 3 (of the island of Ascension), 4 woodcut maps in text, woodcut initials and ornaments, PLUS 29 DOUBLE-PAGE OR FOLDING PLATES INSERTED FROM THE ORIGINAL DUTCH EDITION and one smaller folding plate from an unidentified English work. "This is the first work outside of Portugal and Spain to provide detailed practical information on how to get to, and carry on trade with America and India. The work was indispensable to sailors on the route to the Indies; it provided a dictionary of exotic commodities, of national trading methods, etc. Linschoten's work, along with Hakluyt's, served as a direct stimulus to the building of the vast English and Dutch overseas empires,"--Streeter sale I, 31; Church 321; Sabin 41374; STC 15691; Hill p. 182; Alden 598/57; Borba de Moraes, p. 488. . Provenance : Sir Stephen Fox, Baron Holland (1745-1774), as above; a few contemporary marginal annotations.
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