[Gottfried Schultze] De nieuwe bereysde wereldt

ofte Een korte en bondige beschryvinghe van alle landen en coningrijcken van deien. Waer inne yder bysonderlijck zijn manieren van leven, religien, huyshoudinge en vruchtbaerheyt haerder landen werden aengewesen: Mitsgaders aller pausen, keysers, koningen en vorsten successie. Beschreven door den seer Vermaerden Godefreed Scholtens. Ende met koopere figueren daer toe dienende verrijckt. The Hague, Iohannes Tongerloo, 1662, (4)152,(2) p., with engraved title illustration (repeated on p. 138) and 3 plates, modern halfleather, small 4to.

Interior sl. soiled, staining/ foxing/ browning and with minimal wormholes in foot margin at the end; title page trimmed sl. short and reinforced in margins on reverse, leaf M2 with small tear. Still a good copy. Muller, America 1403; Sabin 77776; Tiele, Bibl. 973. Very rare first Dutch edition of Schultze's "Kurze Welt-Beschreibung" (1648). Several chapters dedicated to the Near and Far East, incl. Persia and the Ottoman Empire, with a list of the Sultans and illustrated with a plate. The work begins with a general description of the world, followed by descriptions of Portugal, the Republic, Venice, Malta, Russia, China, Congo, Morocco etc.