NECK, Jacob Corneliszoon van (1564-1638). The Journall, or Dayly Register, Contayning a True manifestation, and Historical declaration of the voyage, accomplished by eight shippes of Amsterdam... Translated from Dutch into English by William Walker London: [S. Stafford and F Kingston] for Cuthbert Burby and John Flasket, 1601.
NECK, Jacob Corneliszoon van (1564-1638). The Journall, or Dayly Register, Contayning a True manifestation, and Historical declaration of the voyage, accomplished by eight shippes of Amsterdam... Translated from Dutch into English by William Walker London: [S. Stafford and F Kingston] for Cuthbert Burby and John Flasket, 1601. Small 4 o (171 x 124 mm). Gothic type. Dedication leaf. Woodcut vignette of a ship on title. (Lacking final blank, some pale spotting, some headlines and shoulder notes cropped.) 19th-century blind-tooled diced russia, edges gilt, by T. Lloyd (rebacked). Provenance : Hugh, Duke of Westminister (bookplate dated 1884); Boies Penrose (bookplate; his sale part II, Sotheby's London, 9 November 1971, lot 179). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, after the Dutch edition of the same year. Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck represented the Verre Company during this 1598 voyage to the East Indies. Under him were ships commanded by Wybrand van Warwijck and Jacob van Heemskerk. Van Neck's ship was separated from the others soon after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and they were not reunited for some months at Bantam (in Java). Van Neck was a shrewd and skilled negotiator with the natives and rather than reject their inflated prices he accepted them as a gesture of lasting relations. Four of the ships loaded with cargo returned to Holland in July 1599, leaving behind van Warwijck to continue trade in the Moluccas and Heemskerk in the Banda Islands. With Van Neck on this voyage was Willem Jansz, the discoverer of Australia, then on his first voyage as mate of the Hollandia . Van Warwijck later sailed on VOC voyages to the East Indies and van Heemskerk achieved some fame in the Arctic. Howgego notes that "Van Neck's was the most profitable of the pre-VOC voyages. Despite the apparently high price paid for the spices, he netted a profit of 300 per cent on his overall costs. In 1601, fourteen fleets comprising sixty-five ships sailed for the East Indies, but by that time competition between rival Dutch operators, as well as with the Portuguese, had inflated prices and none were as successful as Neck's first enterprise." Van Neck's narrative was reprinted in numerous languages and editions, including in the various editions of de Bry's Collectiones peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et Indiam Occidentalem . VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , the last copy sold at auction was this copy, when it was sold at the Penrose sale in 1971. Alden & Landis 601/66; Howgego N13; STC 18417 [stating that quires A-G were printed by Stafford; [paragraph]2 and quires H-Q were printed by Kingston].
NECK, Jacob Corneliszoon van (1564-1638). The Journall, or Dayly Register, Contayning a True manifestation, and Historical declaration of the voyage, accomplished by eight shippes of Amsterdam... Translated from Dutch into English by William Walker London: [S. Stafford and F Kingston] for Cuthbert Burby and John Flasket, 1601.
NECK, Jacob Corneliszoon van (1564-1638). The Journall, or Dayly Register, Contayning a True manifestation, and Historical declaration of the voyage, accomplished by eight shippes of Amsterdam... Translated from Dutch into English by William Walker London: [S. Stafford and F Kingston] for Cuthbert Burby and John Flasket, 1601. Small 4 o (171 x 124 mm). Gothic type. Dedication leaf. Woodcut vignette of a ship on title. (Lacking final blank, some pale spotting, some headlines and shoulder notes cropped.) 19th-century blind-tooled diced russia, edges gilt, by T. Lloyd (rebacked). Provenance : Hugh, Duke of Westminister (bookplate dated 1884); Boies Penrose (bookplate; his sale part II, Sotheby's London, 9 November 1971, lot 179). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, after the Dutch edition of the same year. Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck represented the Verre Company during this 1598 voyage to the East Indies. Under him were ships commanded by Wybrand van Warwijck and Jacob van Heemskerk. Van Neck's ship was separated from the others soon after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and they were not reunited for some months at Bantam (in Java). Van Neck was a shrewd and skilled negotiator with the natives and rather than reject their inflated prices he accepted them as a gesture of lasting relations. Four of the ships loaded with cargo returned to Holland in July 1599, leaving behind van Warwijck to continue trade in the Moluccas and Heemskerk in the Banda Islands. With Van Neck on this voyage was Willem Jansz, the discoverer of Australia, then on his first voyage as mate of the Hollandia . Van Warwijck later sailed on VOC voyages to the East Indies and van Heemskerk achieved some fame in the Arctic. Howgego notes that "Van Neck's was the most profitable of the pre-VOC voyages. Despite the apparently high price paid for the spices, he netted a profit of 300 per cent on his overall costs. In 1601, fourteen fleets comprising sixty-five ships sailed for the East Indies, but by that time competition between rival Dutch operators, as well as with the Portuguese, had inflated prices and none were as successful as Neck's first enterprise." Van Neck's narrative was reprinted in numerous languages and editions, including in the various editions of de Bry's Collectiones peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et Indiam Occidentalem . VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , the last copy sold at auction was this copy, when it was sold at the Penrose sale in 1971. Alden & Landis 601/66; Howgego N13; STC 18417 [stating that quires A-G were printed by Stafford; [paragraph]2 and quires H-Q were printed by Kingston].
Try LotSearch and its premium features for 7 days - without any costs!
Be notified automatically about new items in upcoming auctions.
Create an alert
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
