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The voyages of Walter Raleigh and Laurence Keymis to Guiana, a.o. describing the city El Dorado

RALEIGH, Walter & Laurens KEYMIS.
Grondige ende waerachtige beschryvinge van het groot end gout-rijck koninckrijck van Guiana, geleghen in America, by- noorden de groote rivier Orelliana, vanden vyfden graet by Zuyden totten vyfden graet by- noorden de middel-linie; in welcke beschrijvinge de rechte gelegentheyt vande groote ende rijcke hooft-stadt Manca, Macureguarai ende andere steden derselvigen koninckrijcks ende  van het groot Souten Meyr Parime (zynde omtrent 200 Spaensche mijlen lang) verclaert wort: insgelijcks wat voor rijcke waaren daer te lande  ende daer omtrent vallen.
Mitsgaders vande omlegghende rijcke landschappen Emeria, Arromaja ende Topago: in welck laetste krijgs-vrouwen (Amzones genoemt) hare wooninge hebben: as oock van 53 groote rivieren onder welcken Oronoque de voornaemste is, welcke spruyt omtrent 500 Duystche mijlen landwaerts in, niet verre van Quitio een vermaerde hooft-stadt in Peru. Alles ontdeckt beschreven in de jaren 1595-1596.





(Amsterdam, Janssonius), 1644. Oblong 4to. Later half mottled calf with gilt title on spine. (49) lvs.

Part from the very rare first edition of  Commelin's ''Begin ende Voortgang'', containing an interesting description of Guiana by Ralegh (Raleigh) and Keymis, based on their experiences during their explorations and expeditions in the years 1595-1596.
This 1644 (fourth Dutch) edition forms a part of the first volume of the original edition of Isaac Commelin's collection of voyages ''Begin en de voortgang van de Vereenigde Neederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie'' of 1644 (Tiele has never seen a copy), and is generally omitted in the later issues dated 1645 and 1646. The  account of the voyages to Guiana by Walter Raleigh and Laurence Keymis were first published in London, 1596 and reprinted by Hakluyt in 1598-1600. Raleigh gives an account of his second voyage (1595) and describes the Spanish city El Dorado, mentioning its Indian name Maoa, and comparing his experiences with earlier (Spanish) accounts, which seemed to confirm the marvellous tales about this city. Raleigh describes his experiences emphasising them as being eyewitness accounts, for he was accused of not actually having been in Guiana himself.

Good copy.- (Upper margin shaved (with loss of headline and pagination); leaf M1 right top corner dam. with loss of text; some marg. waterstains)
Sabin 67558; Cox II, p. 254; Tiele, Mémoire, pp. 10-11, p. 306 (not seen!); Landwehr, VOC, 250 (Commelin).

Related Subjects: America [South]  Americana  Discovery & Exploration  Low Countries  Voyages  West Indies 

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