Funfter Theil der Orientalischen Indien - De Bry Part 5 Petits Voyages - 1600 - Dodo - Elephant - Mauritius - Malay Language - Voyage of Jacob van Neck and Wybrand van Warwijck

"Fünfter Theil der Orientalischen Indien : eygentlicher Bericht vnd warhafftige Beschreibung der gantzen volkommen Reyse oder Schiffart, so die Holländer mit acht Schiffen in die orientalische Indien, sonderlich aber in die Iavanische vnd Molukische Inseln, als Bantam, Banda, vnd Ternate, &c. gethan haben"

-Johann Israel and Theodore DE BRY

-1600 - 1st German Edition of Part 5 of the Petits Voyages

-Complete:  Collation TP, [4], 66, Letterpress title to plates, 20 (of 20) plates. 

-Unbound but good condition of plates

The fifth part of De Bry's Petits voyages contains Jacob van Neck and Wybrand van Warwijck's voyage to the East Indies in 1598 - 1600. This voyage established Dutch power in Bantam, in the Spice Islands, and lead to the naming of Mauritius, after Prince Maurice of Nassau. Plates include depictions of ball games, ships, birds and animals and sword fighting on the Moluccan Islands.

The title page and plate 2 contain early images of the Dodo.

Pages 62-66 contain an important early dictionary of the Malay language