nauigationis ab Hollandis & Selandis in Indiam Orientalem, sub imperio Petri-Guilielmi Verhuffii, cum nouem maiorum & quatuor minorum nauium classe, annis 1607, 1608, & 1609, susceptae & peractae, &c. continens: Addita omnium, quae hoc tempore eis obtigerunt annotatione; Auctore M. Gotardo Arthusio Dantiscano. Elegantissimis in aes incisis iconibus illustrata & in lucem emissa per Ioann. Theodorum de Bry, &c. With: Icones, Omnia, quae Memoratu Maxime Digna in hac Navigatione Continentur, quaeque navigatione tam Hollandis quam Lusitanis aliisque populis acciderunt, ad vivum repraesentantes
First Edition, first issue: (iv), 49, (iii blanks), 3, (i blank), (xxiv) pages, 2 double page engraved plates of Mozambique and St. Helena and 12 half page engraved plates with accompanying text below, recent half brown morocco with marbled paper sides, title gilt on the spine, book plate on the front paste-down endpaper, very good copy.
Verhoeff’s Voyage to the Moluccas 1607-09. Includes a half-page map of the Cape of Good Hope.
Howgego (Raymond) Enclyclopedia of Exploration to 1800, Hordern House 2003, V28, pages 1065/6, 'Pieter Willemszoon Verhoeff, Dutch admiral (died 1609) who in 1607-09 commanded one of the last voyages of the first phase of Dutch occupation in the East Indies. His instructions, in addition to destroying as much Iberian shipping as possible, were to drive the Spanish and Portuguese out of the Moluccas. Verhoeff's fleet of thirteen ships sailed from Amsterdam in December 1607. After an unsuccessful assault on Portuguese positions in Mozambique in July 1608, he proceeded to the Coromandel coast of India, where he renewed an alliance with the Zamorin of Calcut. Once in the East Indies, a detachment of two ships under Nicholas Puyck went to Japan, where they were well received by the Shogun and granted improved trading privileges. Although instructed to besiege Malacca and establish trade with China, neither of Verhoeff's instructions were fully carried out, and Malacca was not to fall to the Dutch until 1641. In the Moluccas new forts were built on Amboina and Banda, but left Ternate in Spanish hands.
'A detachment of the fleet under Vice-Admiral Francois Wittert blockaded Manila for six months until largely destroyed by a Spanish fleet commanded by Juan de Silva. In all Verhoeff lost six of his ships and many of his crew, including all the original leadership. Verhoeff himself, along with many of his ship's council, including the chief merchant, Johan de Moelre, was killed in an ambush by Bandanese in May 1609.'
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 4to (325 x 205 mm)
