Diarium nauticum
itineris Batavorum in Indiam Orientalem, cursuum, tractuum, variorumque eventuum, qui ipsis contiguerunt, diligenter descriptum. [With] Appendix nautici itineris Batavorum in Iavam...
Arnhem, Jan Jansz, 1598
Houtman's voyage, although disastrous in terms of the lives lost, and barely profitable commercially, demonstrated to the Dutch that they could circumvent the Portuguese monopoly on trade with the East Indies. In the year following Houtman's return, twenty-five ships set out from Holland and Zeeland for the spice islands, and thus began the history of the VOC (the Dutch East Indies Company), which was founded in 1602.
First Latin edition. Small oblong folio, [30]; [10] ff., engraved plate to title-page, 10 further plates & 5 maps, with initial letter and colophon; engraved plate to title-page, map of Bali, 24 coastal profiles and a woodcut showing a pair of emu-like birds, with initial letter. Contemporary vellum, slightly cockled, with some light soiling, some early underlining in the text, and neat ownership signature to title-page dated 1600.
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