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LOT 694
SOLD €750,00

Extremely rare first edition: (Journael ofte Gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe

vande Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe van Hoorn begrijpende veel wonderlijcke en gevaerlijcke saecken hem daer in wedervaren; begonnen den 18. December 1618. en vol-eynd den 16. November 1625). (Hoorn, I. Willems for Jan Jansz. Deutel, 1646) [colophon: "t'Haerlem, Gedruckt by Thomas Fonteyn. 1646"], 72 p., with 6 (of 8) engraved plates numbered 1-5 and 8, later half leather, small 4to.

Lacks the entire preliminaries (incl. engraved portrait and title with engravings) as well as plates 6 and 7. Else a poor, waterstained copy with various defects incl. waterstained, plates with frayed edges (sold w.a.f.), with old title in manuscript on the free endpaper and handwritten ex libris of Gerardus Thoelen. The extremely rare first edition of this classic, virtually never offered for sale, even less so in complete condition.

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