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[South America] De trotsmoedige scheeps-togt van Sebastiaan Gaboto,

met 3 scheepen en veel adelijke manschap ondernoomen na de Moluccos, door veel tegenspoeden en onkunde aan Rio de la Plata mislukt. Beneffens de scheeps-togt van Diego Garcia, ter nieuwe ontdekking gedaan, langs de kusten van America. Beyde in 't jaar 1526. Verhalende des konings last, om door de Straat Magellaan, niet alleen de Moluccos-eylanden te bestevenen (...) Uyt d'eyge berigten der reysigers (...) eertijds in 't Spaans beschreeven, door Antonius de Herrera (...) Nu alder-eerst in 't Neder-duyts vertaald. Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1707, (2),83,(9) p., with folding engraved map of South America and 2 folding engraved plates, 20th-century cover.

Map and plates tanned, as well as margins of the first and last leaves. According to the title page, this is the first Dutch translation of the Spanish text of these early 16th-century travel accounts. With fine map of South America. Up to page 53 the work concerns the ship voyage of Gaboto (with the map and the plates), then several pages on the voyage of Garcia and from page 56 the work discusses the government of New Spain.

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