Vervattende veel voorname voorvallen en ongemeene vreemde Geschiedenissen / bloedige Zee-en Landt-gevechten tegen de Portugeesen en Makassaren; Belegering / Bestorming / en Verovering van heel voorname Steden en Kasteelen... Verçiert met seer konstige koopere platen, soo van de voornaemste steden, als andere aenmerckelijcke saken; door den schrijver in Indien self geteeckent.
First Edition: 2 parts in 1, (xii), 328, & 253, (xxiii Bladtwyser), pages, engraved title page, engraved portrait of the author, 4 half page engraved plates, 24 full page engraved plates, 19 double page engraved plates (2 folding), small woodcut vignette on the letterpress title page, full contemporary vellum with manuscript title on the spine, leaf 23/4 skillfully remargined at the bottom, some sections have been strengthened at the gutters, light browning of the printed area, book plates on the front endpapers, overall a very good copy.
Howgego (Raymond John) Encyclopedia of Exploration, Volume I, S66, page 947, 'Dutch seaman and traveller (1638-1704). Schouten first sailed from Amsterdam as ship's surgeon in April 1658 and spent the following seven years in the East, participating in many notable voyages. In 1660 he was present at the Dutch siege of Makasar (in Sulawesi) and in November 1661 visited Colombo, in Ceylon. During 1661-62 he participated in the Campaigns of Rijklof van Goens along the Malabar coast, and in 1664 he was in Bengal and Arakan. I Batavia in 1667 he collected information about the loss of Zeelandia (on Formosa - Taiwan). He also visited Sumatra, the Moluccas, and Amboina, finally returning to Holland in October 1665.
'Schouten was an observant traveller who explored inland into the environs of nearly every port-of-call, sometimes by himself or with a small group of comrades. His narrative, full of anecdotes as well as information gleaned about countries he had not visited, became particularly popular with readers in the eighteenth century, when it was republished in no fewer than seven editions.'
Schouten called at the Cape on both his outward and homeward voyages, and both visits are described in this volume.
t'Amsterdam, by Jacob Meurs, 1676
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 4to (282 x 225 mm)
