First and only edition of an account of the third voyage to the Mediterranean of the Dutch sea-captain Cornelius de Jong van Rodenburgh (1762-1838). He calls at various ports, including (on) Corsica, Marseille, Toulon, Livorno, Malaga, Mallorca, Barcelona, Marseille, Naples, Pompeii and Lisbon. The account is written in the form of 59 letters, not limited to mere travel details, but including much information on the areas visited: history, politics, trade, customs, geography and natural history. With interesting notes on smuggling and female beauty.
With a letterpress dedication by the Dutch fund for encouraging naval service ("Vaderlandsch Fonds ter aanmoediging van 's-lands zeedienst"), filled in manuscript, to Hendrik Balthasar Constantijn Helvetius Ruijsch, dated 1820. The frontispiece portrait lightly foxed, one leaf with a tiny corner torn-off and another with a small hole in the gutter margin (affecting two words of text), but otherwise in very good condition. Cat. NHSM, p. 121; Tiele, Bibl. 554.