Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen, door't Way-gat, by noorden Noorwegen, Moscovien ende Tartarien om, na de coninckrijcken Cathay ende China, met drie schepen, uyt Texel gezeylt in den iare 1594 [electronic resource] : hier achter is by-ghevoeght de beschrijvinghe van de landen Siberia, Samoyeda, ende Tingoesa : seer vreemt en vermaackelijck om Iesen.

Title vignette (2 ships); 6 copperplate engravings which appeared in the text in the original ed., are here given in reduced size on one folded plate, and numbered "foly 3", "foly 4", "foly 8", etc. De Veer's account ends p. 40; on p. 40-41 is an account of Henry H...

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Main Authors: Veer, Gerrit de, fl. 1600., Pontanus, Johannes Isacius, 1571-1639.
Format: Text
Language:Dutch
Published: T'Amsterdam : Door Ioost Hartgers . 1648
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t6640rt4g
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Summary:Title vignette (2 ships); 6 copperplate engravings which appeared in the text in the original ed., are here given in reduced size on one folded plate, and numbered "foly 3", "foly 4", "foly 8", etc. De Veer's account ends p. 40; on p. 40-41 is an account of Henry Hudson's voyage to the North-East in 1609, with references to America. Also includes Pontanus' dissertation on the northeast passage: p. 54-57. Abridged version of G. de Veer's account of the 3 successive Arctic expeditions led by Willem Barendsz in search of a northeast passage to Asia, originally published in Latin. Reprinted from: Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische compagnie . [edited by Izaäk Commelin] -[Amsterdam : s.n.], 1645. Sabin, Electronic reproduction. Mode of access: Internet. 44