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972 - NIEUHOF, Johan Gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense zee- en lantreize. Behelzende al het geen op dezelve is voorgevallen [...] [- Zee en lantreize, door verscheide gewesten van Oostindien, behelzende [...] inzonderheit een wijtloopig verhael der stad Batavia [...]. Amsterdam Wid. J. Van Meurs [= Anna Goelet] 1682 2 parts in 1 vol., folio: [14 incl. front., coat-of-arms and portrait]-240-[2], [4]-308-[4] pp.; 43 (of 49) pl. (6 pl. missing (coconut tree, Indian fig tree, date palm, carambola, 1 fish pl.), pl. of Palembang sl. dampst., occ. spotting and some stains). Contemp. half vellum, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands (used, spine hastily restored with tape). Rare first edition of the fascinating account of travelling in the Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia and in South America by Nieuhoff (1618-1672), who explored Brazil from 1640 to 1649 and resided in Batavia from 1667 to 1670. The first part with 3 pl., incl. 1 map of Brazil, and 9 in-text ill., contains a history of Brazil from its first discovery by the Portuguese, both lay and ecclesiastical. This classic work on Dutch Brazil, which is now becoming rare, is bound together with Nieuhoff's voyage to the East Indies when he joined the service of the Dutch East India Company. This second part consists of 40 pl. incl. a map of the Cape of Good Hope and 2 city plans of Pulicat and of Batavia (now Jakarta), engr. of towns and villages, local people, botanical species and four very fine engr. pl. depicting fish, the so-called "Visch-prenten". Ref. Tiele 199. - Sabin 55278. - Bibliographia Brasiliana II-101. - Landwehr VOC 282. Prov. Jesuit college in Maastricht (various labels).
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NIEUHOF, Johan Gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense zee- en lantreize. Behelzende al het geen op dezelve is voorgevallen [...] [- Zee en lantreize, door verscheide gewesten van Oostindien, behelzende [...] inzonderheit een wijtloopig verhael der stad Batavia [...]. Amsterdam Wid. J. Van Meurs [= Anna Goelet] 1682 2 parts in 1 vol., folio: [14 incl. front., coat-of-arms and portrait]-240-[2], [4]-308-[4] pp.; 43 (of 49) pl. (6 pl. missing (coconut tree, Indian fig tree, date palm, carambola, 1 fish pl.), pl. of Palembang sl. dampst., occ. spotting and some stains). Contemp. half vellum, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands (used, spine hastily restored with tape). Rare first edition of the fascinating account of travelling in the Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia and in South America by Nieuhoff (1618-1672), who explored Brazil from 1640 to 1649 and resided in Batavia from 1667 to 1670. The first part with 3 pl., incl. 1 map of Brazil, and 9 in-text ill., contains a history of Brazil from its first discovery by the Portuguese, both lay and ecclesiastical. This classic work on Dutch Brazil, which is now becoming rare, is bound together with Nieuhoff's voyage to the East Indies when he joined the service of the Dutch East India Company. This second part consists of 40 pl. incl. a map of the Cape of Good Hope and 2 city plans of Pulicat and of Batavia (now Jakarta), engr. of towns and villages, local people, botanical species and four very fine engr. pl. depicting fish, the so-called "Visch-prenten". Ref. Tiele 199. - Sabin 55278. - Bibliographia Brasiliana II-101. - Landwehr VOC 282. Prov. Jesuit college in Maastricht (various labels).
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