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Title

Iohn Hvighen van Linschoten. his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies. Deuided into Foure Bookes.

Author

Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611.

Publication

Printed at London by Iohn Wolfe Printer to ye Honorable Cittie of London [1598]

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Additional Authors

• Phillip, William.
• Paludanus, Bernard, 1550-1633.

Description

4 v. in 1. illus. (maps), 3 fold. pl., 9 fold. maps on 10 ℓ.; 29.5 cm.

Subjects

• Pilot guides
• Revenue > Spain
• Voyages and travels
• Voygages and travels > Early works to 1800
• America > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
• Goa, Daman and Diu (India) > Description and travel

Note

• Translated from the Dutch by W. Phillip, whose initials appear on the title-pages of books 2-4.
• Books 2-4 have special title-pages.
• Text printed in double columns.
• Printer's initials and mark included in border of general t.-p.
• Several pages wrongly numbered (cf. Church)
• Maps and plates engraved by Robert Beckit, Renold Elstrack and William Rogers, general t.-p. and title vignette maps (books 2-3) by Rogers.
• Translation, but in different order, of his: Itinerario, Uoyage ofte Schipvaert, Amsterdam, 1596 (q.v.), including translation of the notes to book 1 by Berend ten Broecke, compiler of book 2.
• "The description of America, and the seuerall partes thereof ..." p. 216-259 [i.e. 295]

Contents

The first booke: The o[r]dering of their ships; the description of Mossambique; of the iland and towne of Ormus [etc., etc.].--The second booke. The true and perfect description of the whole coast of Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, Monomotapa, and right ouer against them the Cape of S. Augustin in Brasilia, with the compasse of the whole Ocean Seas ... translated out of Dutch into English by W.P. ... London, Imprinted by John Wolfe. 1598. Title vignette: map 'The kingedome of Congo'.--The thirde booke. The Nauigation of the Portingales into the East Indies, containing their trauels by Sea, into East India, and from the East Indies into Portingall, also from the Portingall Indies to Malacca, China, Iapon, the Ilands of Iaua and Sunda ... Translated out of Dutch by W.P. London, Printed by John VVolfe, 1598. Title vignette: map of the world.--The fovrth booke. A most true and certaine Extract and Summarie of all the Rents, Demaines, Tolles, Taxes, Impostes, Tributes, Tenthes, third-pennies, & incommings of the King of Spaine ... Together with a briefe and cleere description of the gouernment, power, and pedegree of the Kings of Portingall. Translated out of Spanish into Low-Dutch by Iohn Hughen of Linschoten. And out of Dutch into English by W.P. ... London, Imprinted by John Wolfe. 1598. Title vignette: map "Hispania".

Call Number

*KC+ 1598 (Linschoten, J. H. van. Iohn Hvighen van Linschoten)

LCCN

01007722 //r

OCLC

11138257

Author

Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611.

Title

Iohn Hvighen van Linschoten. his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies. Deuided into Foure Bookes.

Imprint

Printed at London by Iohn Wolfe Printer to ye Honorable Cittie of London [1598]

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Phillip, William.

Paludanus, Bernard, 1550-1633.

Research Call Number

*KC+ 1598 (Linschoten, J. H. van. Iohn Hvighen van Linschoten)

Stuart-*KC 1598 (Linschoten, J. H. van. Iohn Hvighen van Linschoten)