Journal ou Description du Merveilleux Voyage - Willem Corneliszoon SCHOUTEN - 1619

"Journal ou Description du Merveilleux Voyage de Guillaume Schouten... en circum-navigeant le globe terrestre"

-Willem Corneliszoon SCHOUTEN

-1619 (Following the 1st Dutch Edition of 1619)

-Complete with 9 (of 9) engravings and map (including 2 folding maps of New Guinea and the Pacific Ocean and a double paged world map

-Early 19th Centry Full calf binding with marbled endpapers and gold tooling - housed in a brown slipcase

-Complete: TP, [3], World map, 1-88, 2 folding maps and 6 double page plates

-Four of the plates have Dutch text and are likely from a contempary Dutch edition (Several editions were published in French and Dutch between 1618 and 1619)

This important voyage was the 6th recored circumnavigation of the world. The VOC had barred other enterprises from sailing through the Straits of Magellan so Schouten sailed around Cape Horn (which he named after the Dutch city) and across the Pacific the the Moluccas. One of the main purposes of the voyage was to discover Terra Australis and they visited many Pacific Islands including Tonga and Papua New Guinea. On returning via Java, Schouten was arrested by the VOC for breaking trade restrictions but his journey was celebrated in Europe and the account was published in several editions

EARLY AND COMPLETE COPIES OF THIS ACCOUNT OF SCHOUTEN'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION ARE EXCEEDINGLY RARE