8vo, vellum with new endpapers. General title etc., 384, (24); (2), 247,(25) pages, 3 identical title-vignettes. Traces of use and some worming and waterstaining etc, but still a good copy.

This volume consists of 2 parts:

1. Ongemeene scheeps-togten en Dappere Krygs-bedryven door Diego Lopez de Sequeira, gedaan na en in d'Oost-Indien in 't Jaar 1518 en vervolgens (4 maps, 6 folding engravings complete)

2. De roem-waardige Zee- en Land-togten Door den Vermaarden Ferdinandes Cortes, Als Bevel-hebber met een Scheeps-Vloot gedaan na Nieuw-Spanje en Mexico in de jaaren 1518, en vervolgens (map and 5 folding engravings complete).

The maps are: het eiland Sumatra hoe ten aansien van Malacca en d'eilanden Java en Borneo gelegen --- de Moluccos of Speceri-dragende eilanden --- scheeps-togt door Ferdinand Magellaan --- Persiaanze zee met d'eylanden --- Nieuw Spaanje

€ 1.100

8vo, contemporary vellum. Prelims lacking, 5 parts : [2]-107-[11], [25]-138-[8], [2]-114-[12], [2]-83-[9], 55-[7] pages (last part browning). With 6 (of 7) maps and 8 folding engravings, 1 map heavily browned. Traces of use, but a good copy.

This volume includes 4 accounts by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas of the travels of i.a. Cortes; the second part by Joao de Barros deals with Vasco da Gama:

1. Twee onderscheydene reys-togten … de eerste door Gil Gonzales Davila … de tweede handeld van de gevaarlijke land-togt, door Ferdinand Cortes na Las Ybueras gedaan

2. Aansienelyke scheeps-togt door den grave Don Vasco da Gamma, als Ammiraal ter Zee en Onder-Konink van Indien

3. Twee verscheyde scheeps-togten gedaan na de Moluccos en St. Martha, in ’t jaar 1525 en vervolgens : de eerste met 6 scheepen uyt de Corunna door den ridder Garcia Jofre de Loyasa, na de specery-eylanden; de tweede door den land-voogd Rodrigue de Bastidas en P. Alvares Palomino, uyt de haven van St. Domingo na St. Martha

4. De trotsmoedige scheeps-togt van Sebastiaan Gaboto, met 3 scheepen en veel adelijke manschap ondernoomen na de Moluccos … beneffens de scheeps-togt van Diego Garcia, ter nieuwe ontdekking gedaan, langs de kusten van America

5. Vervolg der verrigtingen en ontmoetingen van Ferdinandes Cortes, in de West-Indien en elders, in het jaar 1526. en vervolgens : verhalende onder andere een uytrusting van 3 scheepen na de specery-eylanden … als mede het vertrek van Cortes uyt Mexico

€ 550

8vo, old wrappers, worn. 179 pages, 2 maps (excellent) ("De kusten van Arabie, het Roode meer en Persize zee" and "D'Indize kusten van Bengale, Pegu, Malacca en Siam tot in China") and 3 engravings. Bookplate Bibliothek des Tabaksmuseums.

In 1521 D. Duarte de Menezes was appointed as the next governor of Portuguese India, succeeding Diogo Lopes de Sequeira. He left Lisbon in April, 1521, with an armada of 11 carracks destined for India. He assumed office in early 1522. Duarte de Menezes tenure as governor was considered disastrous. Accused of corruption, he was arrested by his successor, Vasco da Gama, in 1524, and sent back to Portugal in chains. He was imprisoned for nearly seven years in the castle of Torres Vedras, before being finally released by the intercession of powerful friends.

€ 490

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 46 pages plus index, 1 folding map (Andries Battels scheeptogt na Brasilie) and 2 folding engravings.

Translated from Purchas his Pilgrimes (The strange adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh). Andrew Battel was a native of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and was born about 1565. On April 20. 1589, he sailed with Captain Abraham Cocke, from Limehouse, for the Rio de la Plata. The weather was bad and they were forced to return along the Brazilian Coast. Landing at St. Sebastian the crew became separated, Battel was captured by the Indians, sent to the Rio Janeiro and handed over to the Portuguese. After four months' imprisonment he was sent across to Africa, and after numerous adventures arrived back in England, having been absent for eighteen years.

€ 300

8vo 19th century half morocco with modern title piece and hinges strenghtened. 125 pages plus index, 1 folding map (zee en land-reysen vanden ridder Hendrik Blunt) and 2 folding engravings. Translation of “Voyage into the Levant” (London 1634)

€ 350

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 61 pages plus index, lacks folding map (Barbaryen tot de ongelukkige scheep-togt van Francois Brooks), but with the 2 folding engravings.

Translation of “Barbarian cruelty: being a true history of the distressed condition of the Christian captives under the tyranny of Mully Ishmael, Emperor of Morocco, and King of Fez and Macqueness in Barbary : in which is likewise given a particular account of his late wars with the Algerines, the manner of his pirates taking the Christians and others, his breach of faith with Christian princes, a description of his castles and guards, and the places where he keeps his women, his slaves and negroes : with a particular relation of the dangerous escape of the author and two English men more from thence, after a miserable slavery of ten years” (London 1693).

€ 80

"In den Jaaren 1518. en vervolgens. Verhalende insonderheyd, de ongemeene Krijgs-bedrijven van F. Cortes, onder de Tlaskalaanen en Mexicaanen, onder welke avontuuren, de magtige Koning Motezuma heel 't Mexicaanse Rijk ontweldigt, en aan de Castiliaanse Kroon is eygen gemaakt"

8vo, modern hrexine. (2), 247 pages plus index (27). Folding map (Nieuw Spaanje van Panuco Mexico en Iucatan tot Costa Rica) lacking, 5 (folding) engravings. Text complete and crisp.

Based on his letters 1518/1519 regarding the conquest of Mexico.

€ 190

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 49 pages plus index, 1 folding map (d'oostindize voyagien door Johan Davis tweemaal gedaan; uit desselfs reysverhaal opgemaakt) and 3 folding engravings.

Translated from Purchas (The Voyage of Captaine John Davis to the Easterne India, Pilot in a Dutch ship, written by Himselfe). In 1598 Davis sailed with the second expedition of Cornelis de Houtman to India. In Aceh Houtman was murdered and his brother Frederick de Houtman captured. Davis could with 2 others catch the ship and escape. They sailed back to Cape of Good Hope and finally to Middelburg (arrival in July 1600). Davis’ Journal of this trip is very important for the history of the first Dutch expeditions preceding the VOC. In 1601-1603 Davis again sailed to the East, this time in the expedition of James Lancaster, and in 1604 under Edward Michelborne. During this last trip he was around Bintang (Sumatra) slain in a conflict with Japanese pirates.

€ 440

"Waar by gevoegt is het Tweede aanhangsel ... Zijnde die van Richard Steele en Johan Crowter, ten dienste van de Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy, van Asmere na Hispahan. Beneffens nog een Derde aanhangsel; Vervattende eenige beknopte Aanteekeningen van Martin Pring, Schipper op het Schip de Nieuwe-jaars Gift."

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 86 pages plus index, 2 folding engravings.

Translation of “Voyage of Captain Nicholas Downton to India in 1614” published by Purchas. The ships employed on this voyage, the second set forth by the joint stock of the East India Company, were the Newyear's Gift , Hector, Merchant's Hope and the Salomon. Thus only four ships enumerated by Purchas, as employed in the second voyage of the new joint stock, instead of eight mentioned in the Annals.

€ 150

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 61 pages plus index and 2 folding engravings.

Translation of “Histoire d'un Esclave qui a esté quatre années dans les Prisons de Sallé en Afrique” 1679. Jean Gallonyé was on his voyage to visit Saint Christopher's African slaves in the sugar cane industry when he was captured by Turkish pirates in 1670 and ransomed after 4 years captivity.

€ 120

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 24 pages plus index, 1 folding map (De Land-Reyse, door Benedictus Goes, van Lahor gedaan, door Tartaryen na China) and 2 folding engravings.

Translated from the Portugese. “He is mainly remembered as the first known European to travel overland from India to China, via Afghanistan and the Pamirs. Inspired by controversies among the Jesuits as to whether the Cathay of Marco Polo's stories is the same country as China, his expedition conclusively proved that the two countries are one and the same.”

€ 360

"De Tweede van Alexander Childe, na Suratte en Jasques: Gedaan in het Jaar 1616. en vervolgens"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 16 pages plus index, and 1 folding plate.

Translation from Purchas “Notes, concerning the Proceedings of the Factory at Cranganore from the Journal of Roger Hawes”. Hawes sailed in the fleet under Keeling, in 1615, which carried out Sir Thomas Roe. Captain Alexander Childe was commander of the ship James, during the voyage of Terry, under Captain Benjamin Joseph, of the ship Charles, who was slain in a seafight with a Portuguese carack, off one of the Komoro islands.

€ 170

"Nevens verscheyde aanmerkingen van eenige kusten, en een voyagie in Oost-Indien, en bysonder door ’t land van den Grooten Mogol gedaan en beschreven door sijn koopman en reys-genoot, William Finch, beginnende anno 1607"

8vo, 19th century half morocco, hinges strengthened. 114 pages plus index, 1 folding map (Oost-Indize voyagie door William Hawkins) and 9 folding engravings.

The first narrative in this book is “Narrative by William Hawkins, of Occurrences during his Residence in the Dominions of the Great Mogul”, then follows “Observations of William Finch, Merchant, who accompanied Captain Hawkins to Swat, and returned overland to Europe”, both translated from Purchas.

€ 420

"verhalende, op wat wijse de Engelsse de koopmanschap, met de inwoonders, aldaar hebben opgerigt, en door schriftelijke verseekeringen (van den Bassa gegeeven) vast-gestelt: als mede een beschrijving van de stad Mocha, des selfs huysingen, bolwerken en haven-plaats"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 26 pages plus index.

Translation from Purchas “Voyage of the Ann Royal, from Surat to Mokha in 1618”. The Ann Royal belonged to the fleet commanded by Martin Pring and gives an account of a subordinate voyage intended tor settling a trade in the Red Sea. The Ann Royal was commanded by Captain Andrew Shilling, and this narrative is said by Purchas to have been extracted from the journal of Edward Heynes, who appears to have been second merchant in the Ann.

€ 90

"Briefs-wijse opgestelt, en aan de Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy over-gesonden"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 27 pages plus index.

Translation of his letters to the English East India Company. From Purchas.

€ 90

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 114 pages plus index, 3 folding engravings.

Translation of “Third Voyage of the English East India Company, in 1607, by Captain William Keeling”. In this voyage three ships were employed, with about 510 men; the Dragon, admiral Captain Keeling, who was chief commander or general; the Hector, commanded by Captain William Hawkins ; and the Consent, Captain David Middleton. The relation of the voyage, as appears from its title in Purchas, was written by Keeling, but, by a side-note, Purchas informs us, that he had abbreviated the narrative from the journals written at sea, by Captains Keeling and Hawkins.

€ 190

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 75 pages plus index, 1 folding map (A Knivets Zeldzame Reystogt door de Straat Magellaan na de Zuyd Zee tot aan ayn Vlugt in Angola agtervolgt) and 4 folding engravings.

Translated from Purchas (The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, Which Went with Master Thomas Candish in His Second Voyage to the South Sea). Knivet travelled with the pirate Thomas Cavendish to Brazil and lived for eight years in the country. Knivet wandered from the ship on the coast of Brazil, and lived for many years among the Cannibals. Many are the wonderful escapes from death which he relates. In his wanderings, he saw both giants and pigmies. At Port Desire, the footmarks of the former were four times the length of an Englishman's foot, their stature being fifteen or sixteen spans long. Some of Knivet's marvels relate to the singular subject of demoniac possession and satanic influence among the savage tribes with whom he sojourned.

€ 530

8vo simply rebound in red boards, browning and traces of use. 40 pages plus index, 1 folding map with repair and 1 plate. Rather good condition.

Translation from Hackluyt "Captaine Charles Leigh his voyage to Guiana and plantation there". Leigh sailed from Woolwich on 21 March 1604 in the Olive Plant. They arrived on 11 May in the fresh water of the Amazon River. After some trading they left the Amazon; and on 22 May arrived in a river which Leigh calls the Wiapogo. The local indians, who were oppressed by the Carib people, were anxious that the English should settle there. Leigh went on an exploring expedition ninety miles up the river Aracawa, trading and making vain inquiries for gold. When he returned almost every one in the little colony was sick. Supplies sent out by Sir Oliph Leigh arrived in January; they found everybody ill. Leigh himself was very weak. He was ready to go home, but fell ill and died aboard his ship.

€ 190

"Aangaande de Koningrijken van Golconda, Tanassary, Pegu Arecan en meer andere landen, geleegen langs de kust van den zee-boesem van Bengale; als mede de Koophandel, die door de Engelsse in die Land-streeken gedreeven word"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 38 pages plus index, folding map (de koninkryken van Golconda, Tanassari, Pegu en Aracam) with faint damp staining and 2 folding engravings.

Translation of Methwold "Relations of the Kingdome of Golchonda and other neighbouring nations within the Gulfe of Bengala” in Purchas 1626. Methwold (1590) was employed in the East India Company in 1615. He sailed in 1616 in the Unicorn to Asia and became in 1617 chief factor of the Coromandel Coast.

€ 290

"Beschreven door Thomas Jones. Mitsgaders de Voyagien en Berigten van William Nicols, Samuel Bradshaw en Joseph Salbank ... Als ook De Vijfde Reys van de Engelse Maatschappy na Oost-Indien, bysonder na Java en Banda. Gedaan en beschreven van Mr. David Middelton, In ’t Jaar 1609 en vervolgens"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 62 pages plus index, 1 folding plate.

The relation of this fourth voyage fitted out by the English East India Company, and of various circumstances arising out of it, as given by Purchas, consists of four different narratives, by Thomas Jones, William Nicols, Samuel Bradshaw and Joseph Salbank. Next there is an account of the fifth voyage of David Middleton.. Here related in a letter the troubles with the Dutch at Banda.

€ 130

Bound with:

Vier bysondere reysen na Oost-Indien, zijnde de eerste deser, de negende van de Engelse Oost-Indise Maatschappy, met het schip de Jacobus, door Kapiteyn Edmund Marlow, van Bristol: gedaan in het jaar 1611 en vervolgens : de tweede is de tiende van de Engelse Maatschappy, met de schepen, de Draak, en Hosiander, door Mr. Thomas Best, Opper-hoofd: gedaan in het jaar 1611 en vervolgens : de derde behelst de elfde reys van de Engelse Maatschappy, met het schip, de Salomon, beschreeven door Ralph Wilson: gedaan in het jaar 1611 en vervolgens : de vierde is die met het schip de Paarl, daar Samuel Castelton Kapiteyn op was, beschreeven door Johan Tatton, Schipper: gedaan in het jaar 1612

Leyden, Pieter van der Aa 1707

8vo, 19th century half morocco. 217 pages plus index, 1 folding map (de Roode zee in een zesde scheepstogt der Engelze Maatschappie onder H. Middelton tot aan Mocha etc. bevaren) and 7 folding engravings.

Both narratives are translations from Purchas (Sixth Voyage of the English East India Company, in 1610, under the Command of Sir Henry Middleton). This is one of the most curious of all the early voyages of the English to India, particularly on account of the transactions of Sir Henry in the Red Sea. According to the title of the voyage in the Pilgrims, the narrative was written by Sir Henry himself, probably an abstract of his journal. The narrative of Sir Henry Middleton breaks off abruptly. The omission will, however, be found supplied in the subsequent report of the same voyage by Captain Downton (Journal of the preceding Voyage by Nicholas Downton, Captain of the Pepper-corn), and in the Journal of the Eighth Voyage of the India Company commanded by Captain John Saris.

second part: 97 pages plus index, and 2 folding engravings.

€ 450

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 54 pages plus index, 1 folding map (De zee en landreyse van loh. Mildenhal en Cartwrigt na Persien en Mogol op 't spoor gevolgd) and 2 folding engravings.

Mildenhall left London in 1599 and travelling to India through Persia, reached Agra in 1600 and spoke with the Emperor Akbar. Cartwright (The Preachers travels, 1611) accompanied him a while and made the same journey as Sherley did. Translations from Purchas "The travailes of John Mildenhall" and "Observations of Master John Cartwright".

€ 330

"en beschreeven Door Johan Milward, Koopman op het Schip de Thomas; Behelsende hunne verhandeling te Saldania, Bantam, Achen en Tecoo en het aan-doen van eenige onbekende Baayen"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 12 pages plus index, 1 folding plate.

From Purchas “Memorials of a Voyage, wherein were employed three shippes, the Samaritan, Thomas and Thomasine, 1614. written by John Milward Merchant who went in the Thomas”.

€ 80

"handelende van de voorvallen op de eylanden; St. Laurens, Mohelia en het dorp Resoit, de verovering van 2 Baluchse Teradas, de wonderbaarlijke en gelukkige ontkooming der reysigers, uyt de moord-dadige handen der verraderse Baluchers, de verhandeling tussen den Ambassadeur Sherley, en den Gouverneur van Diu, over de koopmanschap, om die in dat land te vestigen, de vuyle, tegen de Engelse, hier over getoond, en wat verder op desen togt is voorgevallen : gedaan in ’t jaar 1613"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 39 pages plus index.

Translation from Purchas : “A Journal of all principal Matters passed in the Twelfth Voyage to the East India, observed by me Walter Payton, in the good ship the Expedition: Whereof Mr Christopher Newport was captain, being set out Anno 1612. Written by the said Walter Payton."

€ 110

"beschrijvende de Steeden, Woon-plaatsen, Godsdienst, Zeden, Gewoontes, Kleedingen, Vee, Vrugten en andere zeldzaamheeden deser woeste Volkeren"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 12 pages plus index.

Translation from the “original language” of a rare account of a voyage to China and Tartary.

€ 70

"en vervolgens : als mede de reys van Thomas Coryat, na Asmere, zijnde de hof-stad van den Grooten Mogol : van Jerusalem, na derwaards door hem met een Caravaan ondernoomen. in het jaar 1615"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 47 pages plus index, 1 folding map (reys togt door Thomas Coryat van Jerusalem).

Both narratives are derived from Purchas: “Voyage of Captain Walter Peyton to India, in 1615”. In this voyage Peyton sailed in the Expedition; the fleet consisting of three other ships, the Dragon, Lion, and Pepper-corn. The second is “Journey of Thomas Coryat by Land, from Jerusalem to the Court of the Great Mogul”.

€ 330

8vo, 19th century half morocco with new label, hinges strengthened. 87 pages plus index, 1 folding map (kaart van Tartaryen volgens de voyagien gedaan door Iohan du Plan Carpin) and 4 folding engravings.

Translated from Bergeron (Relation des voyages en Tartarie, 1634). During the Council of Lyons in 1245 Pope Innocent IV sends an embassy to the Mongols who had invaded Europe a few years ago. He hopes, sending them a messenger, be deterred from continuing their raids and obtain a reverse alliance against the Muslims. "It first revealed the Mongol world to Catholic Christendom; its account of Tatar manners, customs and history is perhaps the best treatment of the subject by any Christian writer of the Middle Ages".

€ 340

"Beneffens een aanhangsel van de voorgaande reys van kapiteyn Pring, beschreeven door Johan Hatch, Schipper op de Bye, naderhand op de Nieuwe-Jaars Gift, en in de te Rug-reys op de Jacobus Gedaan in het Jaar 1617 en vervolgens"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 51 pages plus index.

Translation from Purchas “Fifth voyage of the joint stock by the English East India Company, in 1617, under the command of captain Martin Pring”. Harassments with the Dutch!

€ 120

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 113 pages plus index, 1 folding map (Boven gewesten van Africa door een Engels koopman) and 2 folding engravings.

Translation of “The adventures of (Mr T.S.) an English merchant, taken prisoner by the Turks of Argiers, and carried into the inland countries of Africa: with a description of the kingdom of Argiers, of all the towns and places of note thereabouts. Whereunto is added a relation of the chief commodities of the countrey, and of the actions and manners of the people. Written first by the author, and fitted for the publick view by A. Roberts” London 1670.

€ 290

"Waar in de Godsdiensten, Regeringen, Wetten, Zeden en Handelingen deser Landen en Volkeren; als ook andere gendenkwaardige Saken en Voorvallen; nevens veele schoone Kruyden, Gewassen, Drogens, en Genees-middelen, als ook veel andere bysonderheden, opregt, net en klaar verhandeld werden. Nu aldereerst uyt het Hoogduytsch vertaald."

Folio edition, 203 pages plus index, 2 maps and 5 engravings. Recently rebound, in excellent condition.

Rauwolf started his journey by going from Augsburg to Marseilles in southern France, from which he sailed in 1573 to Tripoli in Lebanon. From Tripoli he went to Aleppo, where he stayed for many months. In 1574 he went from Aleppo to Baghdad and Mosul. In 1575 he went back to Aleppo and Tripoli and then on to Jerusalem. He was back in Augsburg in 1576. Rauwolff was the first European botanist of the post-medieval era to travel in Syria and Mesopotamia. In addition to botanical investigations, Rauwolff observed and recorded his impressions of the people, customs, and sights of the Levantine region. In 1582 he published these as a book in German, "Aigentliche Beschreibung der Raiß inn die Morgenländerin". The English translation, "Dr. Leonhart Rauwolf's Travels into the Eastern Countries" (340 pages) was published in 1693 in a collection of travel narratives.

€ 450

"ondernomen in het jaar 1691, en vervolgens : zijnde een opregt verhaal van zeldsaame ontmoetingen, en deerlijke rampen, als beroovinge van vaartuygen en goederen, honger, dorst, naaktheyd, armoede, veelderley doods-gevaar en andere onuytspreekelijke ongemakken, door hem selfs uytgestaan : mitsgaders een seer naaukeurige beschrijving van het eyland Borneo, met des zelfs koningrijken, als Banyer Massing, Succadana, Cottaringen, de woonplaatsen van de Viadjes en andere, met hare overkostelyke goud- en diamant-mynen, Camphur en andere koopmanschappen, als ook hare goud-rijke bergen en rivieren, negeryen, schoonheyd der vrouwen, huuwelijken, imborst en zeeden der inwoonders, &c. insgelijks een aanmerkelijk berigt van het koningryk Atchin op Sumatra"

8vo, 19th century half morocco, front hinges strengthened. 190 pages plus index, 2 folding maps (d’Oost-indize landschappen, zeen en eylanden + Het eiland Borneo) and 4 folding engravings.

The only Dutch account in this series, meant for a series to be published with Dutch voyages.

€ 780

"insonderheyd na Tartaryen en China in ’t jaar onzes Heeren 1253 vervattende veelerley sonderlinge saken en voorgekomene gevallen"

8vo, late 19th century half morocco. 171 pages text and index, 1 folding map (naaukeurige kaart van Tartaryen) and 4 folding engravings. Exlibris Chateau de Mello. Excellent copy.

Translated from Hakluyt (The journal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, unto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253). William of Rubrouck was a friar and important Medieval traveller who went overland to China before Marco Polo.

€ 370

"als mede de scheeps-togt van Richard Jobson, na de rivier Gambra; gedaan met 2 scheepen, waar van het eerste genoemt wierd, de Sion, groot 200 ton, en de St. Jan, groot 50 ton in het jaar 1620"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 29 pages plus index.

Translations from Purchas “Journal of a voyage to Surat and Jasques” by Schilling and “Discovery of the river Gambia and the golden trade of the Aethiopians” by Jobson. In 1623 Richard Jobson published an account of a 1620-1621 English voyage up River Gambia, during which a party, led by himself, penetrated to a point some 460 miles up-river. The purpose of the voyage was to make contact with the gold trade of the West African interior.

€ 90

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 41 pages plus index, 1 folding map (Reys-Togt van A. Sherley te Land gedaan van Aleppo over Babylonien na' t Hof der Koningx van Persien) and 2 folding engravings.

Translation of “Sir Anthony Sherley: his Relation of his Travels into Persia”. Sherley “decided to journey to Persia with the twofold object of promoting trade between England and Persia and of stirring up the Persians against the Turks. He was very well received by the Shah, Abbas the Great, who made him a Mirza, or prince, and granted certain trading and other rights to all Christian merchants. Then, as the Shah's representative, he returned to Europe and visited Moscow, Prague, Rome, and other cities, but the English government would not allow him to return to his own country.”

€ 330

"ook sijn opkomst in de oorlogen des keysers tegen den Turk en de Tarters, op wat wijse hy gevangen genoomen, en als een slaaf gehandelt wierd; dog eyndelijk door een wonderlijk waag-stuk ontquam : als mede de aart, zeeden, gewoontens en gods-dienst van allerley soort van Tarters"

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 81 pages plus index, 1 folding map (d'avontuurlyke reystogt van Johan Smith) and 3 folding engravings.

Translation of the first XX chapters of “The true travels, adventures and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith”. On voyages through Turkey and Tartary in 1593, but also with a few pages on his voyage to Barbados, America and his encounter with Indian princess Pocahontas.

€ 360

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 12, 106 pages plus index. 1 folding map (Jan Stadens scheeps-togten ...) and 22 (of 24) folding engravings. Contents good despite some damp staining.

Translation from the German (Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser-Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen) in 1557. Hans Staden (c.1525–c.1576) was a German soldier and explorer who voyaged to South America in the middle of the sixteenth century, where he was captured by the Tupinamba people of Brazil.

€ 320

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 63 pages plus index, 1 repaired folding map (Oost-indize scheepstogt door Edward Terry) and 2 folding engravings.

From Purchas “Relation of a voyage to India in 1616 with observations respecting the dominions of the great Mogul”.

€ 250

8vo, handmade marbled wrappers. 15 pages plus index.

Translated from Purchas (The unfortunate Voyage of Captain Benjamin Wood, towardt the East Indies, in 1596).

€ 100