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A 17th-century view on the history of the world

SCHOLTENS, Godefreed (or Godfried SCHOLTEN; = Gottfried SCHULTZE).
De nieuwe bereysde wereldt ofte een korte en bondige beschryvinghe van alle landen en coningrijcken van dien. Waer inne yder bysonderlijck zijn manieren van leven, religien, huyshoudinge en vruchtbaerheyt haerder landen werden aengewesen: mitsgaders aller pausen, keysers, koningen en vorsten successie, begin en eynde.

With large engraved illustration on title, repeated in text (p. 138), and 3 full-page engraved plates with 9 scenes.

With large engraved illustration on title, repeated in text (p. 138), and 3 full-page engraved plates with 9 scenes.

With large engraved illustration on title, repeated in text (p. 138), and 3 full-page engraved plates with 9 scenes.

With large engraved illustration on title, repeated in text (p. 138), and 3 full-page engraved plates with 9 scenes.

With large engraved illustration on title, repeated in text (p. 138), and 3 full-page engraved plates with 9 scenes.



The Hague, Johannes Tongerloo, 1662. 4to. Modern half morocco, boards covered with marbled paper. With large engraved illustration on title, repeated in text (p. 138), and 3 full-page engraved plates with 9 scenes. (4), 152, (2) pp.

First and only edition of this history of the world, offering dates, lists of the rulers, the main cities, religion, trade, and the main products of a large number of countries from all parts of the world as known at the time. Apart from  the countries of Europe, the book presents short histories of the West-Indies, including horrible scenes of cannibals and worshipping Indians, the countries of Africa, such as Congo and Morocco and the Near and Far East, like Persia, Arabia, Egypt, India, China, Japan, etc. The work is translated into Dutch from the original German text by Gottfried Schultze (b. 1611-1665).

Good copy of a rare chapbook.- (Somewhat thumbed, without the third blank leaf of the preliminaries, sl. foxing and browning, title-vignette shaved, sm. tear in pp. 91/2 without lost of text).
Muller, Cat. Populaire prozaschrijvers (1893), 880 (ascribing the plates to C. de Pas); Tiele 973; Sabin 77776; Muller, America, 1403.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Asia  Asia Minor  Asia [Far East]  Dutch  Europe  History  Travel & Voyages 

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