Description of Brazil and the East Indies ""Gedenkwaerige Brasiliaense Zee- en Lant- Reize..." Johan Nieuhof, 1682

"Gedenkwaerige Brasiliaense Zee- en Lant- Reize, behelzende al het geen op dezelve is voorgevallen. Beneffens een bondige beschrijving van gantsch Neerlants Brasil ... / Zee en Lant-Reize, door verscheide Gewesten van Oostindien ... een wijtloopig verhael der Stad Batavia."

-Johan Nieuhof

-Jacob De Meurs

-1682 - 1st Edition

-Folio (38 x 24cm)

-Contemporary blind stamped vellum with handwritten title on spine which has been rebacked

-1 Illustrated Titlepage, 4 double page maps and 45 (of which 27 double page) illustrations (Complete)

- Collation: 2 works in 1: 4 ll., 240 pp. (r. 246), 1 ll.; 2 ll., 308 pp., 2 ll. Pgt. (Complete)

- Very Good condition overallWear to joints and head area of ​​the spine. Endpaper and copper title stained with occasionally foxing, otherwise only minor signs of age. Pagination faulty.

This is an important early work describing Dutch Brazil, Batavia, India and the Dutch East Indies. The two works are lavishly produced and the accounts are accompanied by Maps and illustrations of towns and the natural history of the regions.

Nieuhof worked for the Dutch West Indies Company for several years and learnt much about the Brazil and its natural history. He subsequently worked for the VOC (Dutch East Indies Company) so was uniquely placed to describe both the Eastern and Western regions of the world. His eyewitness accounts are still valuable resources on the early history of these regions.

A key 17th Century work on Brazil and the East Indies. 

Sabin 55278. Borba de Moraes. II, 101. Bosch 145. Landwehr, VOC 282. Lipperheide Md 2. Nissen ZBI 2975