68 3071 Asia Valentyn F 68/3071 [Asia]. Valentyn, F. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java, en alle de Eylanden onder dezelve landbestieringen behoorende (...). Als ook (...) van Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Melabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap der Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Dordr./ Amst., J. van Braam/ G. onder de Linden, 1724-1726, 5 parts in 8 vols., engr. frontisp., fold. portrait of the author, dedic. leaf, 203 (of 267) (large) (fold.) maps, plans, plates, portraits and views (often 2 ills. on 1 plate (counted as 1)), 81 engr. (and 3 woodcut) text ills., fold. letterpress tables, contemp., unif. hcalf w. gilt spine, board edges gilt, folio. - Lacks 63 maps and title-p. of vol. 5 (almost all suplied in photocopy); vol. 5 and 7 (sl.) waterst. throughout; vol. 7 sl. mouldy; most vols. w. new endpapers. All vols. rebacked w. use of contemp backstrip. = Landwehr, VOC 467; Tiele 1121; Alt Japan Katalog 1570; Cordier, Japonica 426-428; Cordier, Indosinica 927-930; Cat. NHSM I, 502; Mendelssohn IV, p.594; Von Hünersdorff/ Hasenkamp I, p.1527; Rouffaer/ Muller p.477. One of the most extensive works and the main old source on the Dutch East Indies with many documents, partly lost by now. Also containing important descriptions of i.a. Cape of Good Hope, China, Japan and Ceylon and 2 early voyages to Australia with interesting maps. For the description of the history of Amboina Valentyn used the unpublished and lost manuscript "Amboinsch Dierboek" by Rumphius.
68 3071 Asia Valentyn F 68/3071 [Asia]. Valentyn, F. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java, en alle de Eylanden onder dezelve landbestieringen behoorende (...). Als ook (...) van Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Melabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap der Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Dordr./ Amst., J. van Braam/ G. onder de Linden, 1724-1726, 5 parts in 8 vols., engr. frontisp., fold. portrait of the author, dedic. leaf, 203 (of 267) (large) (fold.) maps, plans, plates, portraits and views (often 2 ills. on 1 plate (counted as 1)), 81 engr. (and 3 woodcut) text ills., fold. letterpress tables, contemp., unif. hcalf w. gilt spine, board edges gilt, folio. - Lacks 63 maps and title-p. of vol. 5 (almost all suplied in photocopy); vol. 5 and 7 (sl.) waterst. throughout; vol. 7 sl. mouldy; most vols. w. new endpapers. All vols. rebacked w. use of contemp backstrip. = Landwehr, VOC 467; Tiele 1121; Alt Japan Katalog 1570; Cordier, Japonica 426-428; Cordier, Indosinica 927-930; Cat. NHSM I, 502; Mendelssohn IV, p.594; Von Hünersdorff/ Hasenkamp I, p.1527; Rouffaer/ Muller p.477. One of the most extensive works and the main old source on the Dutch East Indies with many documents, partly lost by now. Also containing important descriptions of i.a. Cape of Good Hope, China, Japan and Ceylon and 2 early voyages to Australia with interesting maps. For the description of the history of Amboina Valentyn used the unpublished and lost manuscript "Amboinsch Dierboek" by Rumphius.
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