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Interesting edition of the account of the first Dutch circumnavigation by Olivier van Noort, 1598-1601

NOORT, Olivier van.
Journael van de wonderlijcke voyagie door de Straet Magalanes, ende voorts den gantschen kloot des aertbodems om, gedaen met vier scheepen, onder het beleydt van Olivier van Noordt, uytgevaren in 't jaer 1598. Verhalende de bysonderste vreemdicheden, haer op de reyse voorgevallen, als mede de zeden en manieren der inwoonderen, vreemde aerdt van vogelen, en beesten, etc. die zy daer te lande gezien hebben.

Woodcut of two ships on title page, full-page woodcut (153 x 1078 mm.) of a winged woman, ' Fama', blowing a trumpet and holding another trumpet in her left hand, floating above the globe, by Christoffel van Sichem, signed by the well-known CVS monogram with '(S)ichem. fecit." added; underneath a laudatory poem on Van Noort signed with "Hier na een Beter". 2 engravings (p. 7 and 8, after two plates of Hartgers) and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, showing coastal views with ships and native fishing, a burning ship at sea, a pinguin, meeting with natives on an island, etc.

Woodcut of two ships on title page, full-page woodcut (153 x 1078 mm.) of a winged woman, ' Fama', blowing a trumpet and holding another trumpet in her left hand, floating above the globe, by Christoffel van Sichem, signed by the well-known CVS monogram with '(S)ichem. fecit." added; underneath a laudatory poem on Van Noort signed with "Hier na een Beter". 2 engravings (p. 7 and 8, after two plates of Hartgers) and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, showing coastal views with ships and native fishing, a burning ship at sea, a pinguin, meeting with natives on an island, etc.

Woodcut of two ships on title page, full-page woodcut (153 x 1078 mm.) of a winged woman, ' Fama', blowing a trumpet and holding another trumpet in her left hand, floating above the globe, by Christoffel van Sichem, signed by the well-known CVS monogram with '(S)ichem. fecit." added; underneath a laudatory poem on Van Noort signed with "Hier na een Beter". 2 engravings (p. 7 and 8, after two plates of Hartgers) and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, showing coastal views with ships and native fishing, a burning ship at sea, a pinguin, meeting with natives on an island, etc.

Woodcut of two ships on title page, full-page woodcut (153 x 1078 mm.) of a winged woman, ' Fama', blowing a trumpet and holding another trumpet in her left hand, floating above the globe, by Christoffel van Sichem, signed by the well-known CVS monogram with '(S)ichem. fecit." added; underneath a laudatory poem on Van Noort signed with "Hier na een Beter". 2 engravings (p. 7 and 8, after two plates of Hartgers) and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, showing coastal views with ships and native fishing, a burning ship at sea, a pinguin, meeting with natives on an island, etc.

Woodcut of two ships on title page, full-page woodcut (153 x 1078 mm.) of a winged woman, ' Fama', blowing a trumpet and holding another trumpet in her left hand, floating above the globe, by Christoffel van Sichem, signed by the well-known CVS monogram with '(S)ichem. fecit." added; underneath a laudatory poem on Van Noort signed with "Hier na een Beter". 2 engravings (p. 7 and 8, after two plates of Hartgers) and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, showing coastal views with ships and native fishing, a burning ship at sea, a pinguin, meeting with natives on an island, etc.



Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [1663]. 4to. 19th-century cloth. Woodcut of two ships on title page, full-page woodcut (153 x 1078 mm.) of a winged woman, ' Fama', blowing a trumpet and holding another trumpet in her left hand, floating above the globe, by Christoffel van Sichem, signed by the well-known CVS monogram with '(S)ichem. fecit." added; underneath a laudatory poem on Van Noort signed with "Hier na een Beter". 2 engravings (p. 7 and 8, after two plates of Hartgers) and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, showing coastal views with ships and native fishing, a burning ship at sea, a pinguin, meeting with natives on an island, etc. 48 pp.

Rare edition of the famous account of the circumnavigation of Olivier van Noort (1559-1627) in 1598-1601. Van Noort was the fourth to circumnavigate the globe and the first Dutchman to do so. His predeccessors were Magellan, Drake and Cavendish. Noort left Holland in 1598 with four ships with orders to attack the Spaniards and Portuguese and to harass them in any way possible. After many adventures Van Noort returned in 1601 with only one ship.
The first edition of the account was published in 1601 with many re-editions to follow. A French translation appeared already in 1602; a French edition in 1610, testifying of the popularity of the text. The account was also incorporated in the collections of Commelin (1646) and Saeghman: this edition, which is in fact a re-edition of one of the editions by Lucas de Vries in Utrecht (1649 and 1652), the birthplace of Olivier van Noort. It is the first (and only?) edition with the full-page woodcut by Christoffel van Sichem on the verso of the title.

Good copy.- (Spine worn and frayed; some underlinings).
Tiele 809, p.182; Tiele, Memoire, p. 35-36; Sabin 55444; Olivier van Noort, De reis om de wereld. Met inl. en aant. uitgeg. d. J.W. IJzerman. 2 dln. (The Hague, 1926) (=Werken Linschoten ver., 27=28); cf. Borba de Moraes, p. 617.

Related Subjects: Circumnavigation  Dutch  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages 

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