Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

This work has been identified as the second edition of part eight by Church.

Constitutes the eighth part of Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten in verschiedene fremde Länder durch Levinus Hulsius und einige Andere, aus dem Holländischen ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit allerhand Anmerrkungen versehen, compiled by Levinus Hulsius, and printed in 26 parts in Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1598 to 1663.

Contains short accounts of the voyages of Gerard le Roy, Wolfert Harmensz, Jacob van Heemskerk, Jacob Cornelisz. van Neck, and Wijbrand van Warwijck to the East Indies from 1599 to 1604. Cf. Church.

Also contains a brief account of Olivier van Noort's voyage along the coast of South America. Cf. Alden.

In this edition the whole narrative seems to have been revised, as many portions of the text are rewritten or additions made from other accounts. Cf. Church.

First printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1605 under title: Achte Schiffahrt. Kurtze Beschreibung, was sich mit dem Holländern vnd Seeländern, in dem Ost Indien, die nechst verlauffene vier oder fūnff Jahre, als Anno 1599. 1600. 1601. 1602. vnd 1603. zugetragen.

Signatures: a-g⁴ (A1 verso blank)

Engraved vignette of a sailing ships on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Church, E.D. Discovery, no. 289.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I: p. 459-460.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 608/81.