LINSCHOTEN, Jean Huygen van. - Lot 247

LINSCHOTEN, Jean Huygen van. Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linscot Hollandais et de son voyage Indes Orientales. A Amsterdam, de l'Imprimerie de Henry Laurent, 1610. Small folio, (2) ff, 275 pp, figures. Later half fawn basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page, yellow edges (corners and edges rubbed, tail cap damaged, margins short, restorations, missing text and engravings on pages 51-52, missing hors textes and pp. 113-114 and 191-192). Second edition in French of this important work by Jean Hugues Linschoten (1563-1611), bringing together all knowledge of the East and West Indies at the end of the 16th century. First published in Dutch in 1596 from Spanish and Portuguese documents on navigation and geography, it was used to build vast English and Dutch empires overseas. Illustrated with 56 large black intaglio figures in the text. Sabin, 41368.