Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen, door't Way-gat, by noorden Noorwegen, Moscovien ende Tartarien om, na de coninckrijcken Cathay ende China, met drie schepen, uyt Texel gezeylt in den iare 1594
hier achter is by-ghevoeght de beschrijvinghe van de landen Siberia, Samoyeda, ende Tingoesa : seer vreemt en vermaackelijck om Iesen.
by Gerrit de Veer
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Text in Dutch.
Reference: Sabin 98739.
De Veer's account ends p. 40; on p. 40-41 is an account of Henry Hudson's voyage to the North-East in 1609, with references to America. Also includes Pontanus' dissertation on the northeast passage: p. 54-57.
Abridged version of G. de Veer's account of the 3 successive Arctic expeditions led by Willem Barendsz in search of a northeast passage to Asia, originally published in Latin. Reprinted from: Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische compagnie ... [edited by Izaäk Commelin] - [Amsterdam : s.n.], 1645.
Title vignette (2 ships); 6 copperplate engravings which appeared in the text in the original ed., are here given in reduced size on one folded plate, and numbered "foly 3", "foly 4", "foly 8", etc.
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1994.
[2], 57 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
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