DE VEER, Gerrit.

A True Description of three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and China,

undertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595, and 1596, by Gerrit de Veer. Published at Amsterdam in the Year 1598, and in 1609 translated into English by William Phillip. Edited by Charles T. Beke, Phil.D., F.S.A.

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95543

London, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1853

£400

Hakluyt Society Series I, no. 13.

De Veer (1570-1598), was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast passage. De Veer kept a diary of the voyages and in 1597, was the first person to observe and record the Novaya Zemlya effect, and the first Westerner to observe hypervitaminosis A caused by consumption of the liver of a polar bear.

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8vo. cxlii, 291pp., 12 illustrations and 4 maps, original blue cloth gilt, ship device on upper board, spine faded, top of spine worn, a very good copy of a scarce title.