[LODEWYCKSZ, WILLEM.] Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam Orientalem. Engraved map of Europe, Africa, and Asia on title; 48 half-page engraved illustrations; woodcut charts and coastline views in text; lacks the infrequently found folding plate of the bazaar at Bantam. 51, [1] leaves. bound with: [VEER, GERRIT DE.] Diarium nauticum, seu vera descriptio trium navigationum . . . factarum a Hollandicis & Zelandicis navibus ad septentrionem, supra Norvagiam, Moscoviam & Tartariam, versus Catthay & Sinarum regna. Engraving with multiple scenes on title; 27 half-page illustrations; 4 maps, including one full-page of Novaya Zemlya. 41 [i. e., 42] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 310x235 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, soiling and stains on covers, joints and bottom of spine slightly chipped; marginal toning and soiling through much of volume, repaired clean tear in title, outer portion of illustration on G1r reinforced on verso, and repaired clean tear in G4 in first work, dampstains on last leaf in second work. List of late 17th-century works on exploration and geography in contemporary hand in ink on recto and verso of rear endleaf. Amsterdam: Cornelis Nicolai, 1598; 1598
[LODEWYCKSZ, WILLEM.] Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam Orientalem. Engraved map of Europe, Africa, and Asia on title; 48 half-page engraved illustrations; woodcut charts and coastline views in text; lacks the infrequently found folding plate of the bazaar at Bantam. 51, [1] leaves. bound with: [VEER, GERRIT DE.] Diarium nauticum, seu vera descriptio trium navigationum . . . factarum a Hollandicis & Zelandicis navibus ad septentrionem, supra Norvagiam, Moscoviam & Tartariam, versus Catthay & Sinarum regna. Engraving with multiple scenes on title; 27 half-page illustrations; 4 maps, including one full-page of Novaya Zemlya. 41 [i. e., 42] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 310x235 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, soiling and stains on covers, joints and bottom of spine slightly chipped; marginal toning and soiling through much of volume, repaired clean tear in title, outer portion of illustration on G1r reinforced on verso, and repaired clean tear in G4 in first work, dampstains on last leaf in second work. List of late 17th-century works on exploration and geography in contemporary hand in ink on recto and verso of rear endleaf. Amsterdam: Cornelis Nicolai, 1598; 1598
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