(Locke, John)Willem Corneliszoon Schouten. Journal ou Relation Exacte du Voyage … dans les Indes: Par un nouveau destroit, & par les grandes Mers Australes qu'il a descourvert, vers le Pole Antartique. Paris: Martin Gobert (text) and Melchior Tavernier (maps), 1618. 8vo (168 x 117 mm). Folding engraved map of the world in two hemispheres with portraits of Magellan, Schouten, and other circumnavigators, 3 folding engraved sea charts, 4 folding engraved plates, historiated and decorative woodcut initials and headpieces, with initial blank a1; gathering E supplied from another copy, occasional very light marginal dampstaining, tiny rust-stains to one plate, small wormhole to last three gatherings just touching a very few letters, a few tiny marginal wormholes. Contemporary vellum over flexible boards, spine lettered in ink with author and title, plain endpapers and edges; lightest soiling. John Locke's copy of the first French edition, of Schouten's immensely popular account of his voyage with Jacob Le Maire in search of the unknown southern continent. Within a year of the original Dutch edition, translations in French, German, Latin, and English were published. Schouten and Le Maire set sail in search of a new passage to the Pacific and the Spice Islands on behalf of a rival to the Dutch East India Company. Their voyage was the first to round Cape Horn from the east; that place name was derived from Schouten's hometown of Hoorn. The voyage established that—contrary to the maps of Ortelius and Mercator—the Southern Continent did not extend to the Straits of Magellan. Despite his discovery of a new passage to the Pacific, Schouten was arrested for infringing on the monopoly of the Dutch East India Company; his ship returned to the Netherlands in the custody of Joris van Spilbergen. In addition to Schouten and Magellan, the world map includes medallion portraits of Drake, Cavendish, Spilbergen, and van Noort. The charts depict Tierra del Fuego, the South Sea, and New Guinea; the plates comprise two scenes of Indian life, as well as views of Cape Horn and Cocos. This copy belonged to John Locke, who has signed the front pastedown and marked the volume as a duplicate at the foot of the title-page. Locke's signature is preceded by the letter b, which, according to The Library of John Locke by Harrison and Laslett, was an inventory-mark put into the books in or about 1697 and not to be found in any books acquired after that date. The published catalogue cites Locke's other copy of Schouten's Journal, which he likely acquired after realizing the original binding error in this copy. PROVENANCEJohn Locke (signature) — Lord Lovelace, Ben Damph in Torridon, sold privately to — Philip Robinson (Sotheby's London, 23 June 1988, lot 88) — David Parsons (Sotheby's New York, 11 December 2007, lot 88) — Christie's New York, 15 June 2017, lot 434 REFERENCEEuropean Americana 618/119; Sabin 77952; Shirley, World 299
(Locke, John)Willem Corneliszoon Schouten. Journal ou Relation Exacte du Voyage … dans les Indes: Par un nouveau destroit, & par les grandes Mers Australes qu'il a descourvert, vers le Pole Antartique. Paris: Martin Gobert (text) and Melchior Tavernier (maps), 1618. 8vo (168 x 117 mm). Folding engraved map of the world in two hemispheres with portraits of Magellan, Schouten, and other circumnavigators, 3 folding engraved sea charts, 4 folding engraved plates, historiated and decorative woodcut initials and headpieces, with initial blank a1; gathering E supplied from another copy, occasional very light marginal dampstaining, tiny rust-stains to one plate, small wormhole to last three gatherings just touching a very few letters, a few tiny marginal wormholes. Contemporary vellum over flexible boards, spine lettered in ink with author and title, plain endpapers and edges; lightest soiling. John Locke's copy of the first French edition, of Schouten's immensely popular account of his voyage with Jacob Le Maire in search of the unknown southern continent. Within a year of the original Dutch edition, translations in French, German, Latin, and English were published. Schouten and Le Maire set sail in search of a new passage to the Pacific and the Spice Islands on behalf of a rival to the Dutch East India Company. Their voyage was the first to round Cape Horn from the east; that place name was derived from Schouten's hometown of Hoorn. The voyage established that—contrary to the maps of Ortelius and Mercator—the Southern Continent did not extend to the Straits of Magellan. Despite his discovery of a new passage to the Pacific, Schouten was arrested for infringing on the monopoly of the Dutch East India Company; his ship returned to the Netherlands in the custody of Joris van Spilbergen. In addition to Schouten and Magellan, the world map includes medallion portraits of Drake, Cavendish, Spilbergen, and van Noort. The charts depict Tierra del Fuego, the South Sea, and New Guinea; the plates comprise two scenes of Indian life, as well as views of Cape Horn and Cocos. This copy belonged to John Locke, who has signed the front pastedown and marked the volume as a duplicate at the foot of the title-page. Locke's signature is preceded by the letter b, which, according to The Library of John Locke by Harrison and Laslett, was an inventory-mark put into the books in or about 1697 and not to be found in any books acquired after that date. The published catalogue cites Locke's other copy of Schouten's Journal, which he likely acquired after realizing the original binding error in this copy. PROVENANCEJohn Locke (signature) — Lord Lovelace, Ben Damph in Torridon, sold privately to — Philip Robinson (Sotheby's London, 23 June 1988, lot 88) — David Parsons (Sotheby's New York, 11 December 2007, lot 88) — Christie's New York, 15 June 2017, lot 434 REFERENCEEuropean Americana 618/119; Sabin 77952; Shirley, World 299
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