[South America] Willem Cornelisz. Schouten. Historische Beschreibung der wunderbarlichen

Reyse, welche von einem holländer, Wilhelm Schouten genandt, neulicher Zeit is verrichtet worden (...). Franckfurt am Main, Pauli Jacobi, 1619. 1 text part and 1 plate part. Text: 35 p. Folio. Splendid large engr. title ill. w. double portrait of Magellan and Schouten above a world map, 2 fold. engr. charts outside collation. Plate part: letterpress title-p., 9 plates (incl. the same engr. as on the title of text and 1 chart), loose quires.

Professionally and beautifully restored copy, leaf AV w. loss of text, leaf BIV w. repaired tear sl. affecting the text, occas. sm. tears in margins, quires sl. browned, occas. sl. stained. Very rare early ed. Willem Schouten (1577-1625) discovered the Strait of Magellan in 1616, during one of the greatest maritime voyages of all time. The orig. Dutch ed. appeared in 1618. The beautiful ills. were made by members of the De Bry family.