VEER, Gerrit de (ca 1573-after 1598). Diarum nauticum seu vera descriptio Trium Navigationum admirandarum...ad Septentrionem, supra Norvagiam, Moscoviam & Tartariam, versus Catthay & Sinarum regna: tum ut detecta fuerint VVeygatz fretum, Nova Zembla, & Regio sub 80. gradu sita, quam Groenlandiam esse censent... Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz, 1598.
VEER, Gerrit de (ca 1573-after 1598). Diarum nauticum seu vera descriptio Trium Navigationum admirandarum...ad Septentrionem, supra Norvagiam, Moscoviam & Tartariam, versus Catthay & Sinarum regna: tum ut detecta fuerint VVeygatz fretum, Nova Zembla, & Regio sub 80. gradu sita, quam Groenlandiam esse censent... Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz, 1598. 2 o (320 x 236 mm). Large etched title-vignette, 31 etched illustrations in the text: 30 half-page (26 showing scenes of Arctic exploration) and 5 maps of the Arctic region (one a full page map of Novaya Zemlya signed by the engraver, Baptista a Doetechum, 1598). (A few leaves with some minor mostly marginal pale staining, some minor creasing.) Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century mottled tree calf gilt, gilt arms of Stuart of Rothesay on sides (endpapers dated 1811); cloth folding case. Provenance : Sir Charles Stuart Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), G.C.B. and privy councillor, minister at the Hague (1815-16), ambassador to Paris, and St. Petersburg, 1841-45 (binding); SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS (shelfmark and inscribed "MHC" in pencil on front free endpaper); Philip Robinson (his sale, part I, Sotheby's London, 23 June 1988, lot 284). THE VERY FINE BARON STUART DE ROTHESAY-SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS COPY OF THIS MAJOR WORK OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION DESCRIBING THE THREE BARENTSZ VOYAGES IN SEARCH OF A NORTHEAST PASSAGE TO THE FAR EAST. FIRST EDITION IN LATIN. In the latter part of the 16th-century the English and the Dutch attempted to discover a northeastern trading route to the Far East by sea. After several failed attempts the English gave up, never reaching further than to Novaya Zemlya. De Veer's account describes the three voyages undertaken by Willem Barentsz (ca 1550-1597) in the form of an illustrated diary. On the first two of these expeditions Barentsz was accompanied by Jan Huyghens van Linschoten, famed for his voyage to the East. The first voyage of 1594 sailed the length of Novaya Zemlya and then via Vaygach to the Kara Sea. Believing they had found the Northeast Passage, the Dutch set out on a second expedition the following year with ships loaded heavily with trading goods intended for the Chinese, but this trip was thwarted by frozen waters. The third voyage of 1596-97, which takes up most of De Veer's account, is one of the most important in the history of Polar exploration. After the discovery of Bear Island and Spitsbergen, Barentsz sailed to Novaya Zemlya, eventually rounding the northern cape. The ship was crushed in ice, and the expedition members were forced to make the first recorded overwintering this far north, surviving in a hut constructed of driftwood. Barentsz died on this third voyage, but the surviving members (including De Veer, who had also participated in the second voyage) managed to reach the Kola Peninsula where they found three Dutch ships which assisted in their return to the Netherlands. The illustrations depict the many hardships, including the construction of the camp on the ice, numerous encounters with polar bears, and many other scenes of the expeditions. De Veer's important account was first published in 1598 in Dutch, with this Latin and the French editions appearing in the same year. Adams V-316; Alden & Landis 598/113; JCB (3) I:369; Tiele 1130 ( Memoire bibliographique sur les journaux des navigateurs nierlandais [Bibliographical Memoir on the Journals of Dutch Navigators], Amsterdam: Muller, 1867; reprinted, Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1960).
VEER, Gerrit de (ca 1573-after 1598). Diarum nauticum seu vera descriptio Trium Navigationum admirandarum...ad Septentrionem, supra Norvagiam, Moscoviam & Tartariam, versus Catthay & Sinarum regna: tum ut detecta fuerint VVeygatz fretum, Nova Zembla, & Regio sub 80. gradu sita, quam Groenlandiam esse censent... Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz, 1598.
VEER, Gerrit de (ca 1573-after 1598). Diarum nauticum seu vera descriptio Trium Navigationum admirandarum...ad Septentrionem, supra Norvagiam, Moscoviam & Tartariam, versus Catthay & Sinarum regna: tum ut detecta fuerint VVeygatz fretum, Nova Zembla, & Regio sub 80. gradu sita, quam Groenlandiam esse censent... Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz, 1598. 2 o (320 x 236 mm). Large etched title-vignette, 31 etched illustrations in the text: 30 half-page (26 showing scenes of Arctic exploration) and 5 maps of the Arctic region (one a full page map of Novaya Zemlya signed by the engraver, Baptista a Doetechum, 1598). (A few leaves with some minor mostly marginal pale staining, some minor creasing.) Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century mottled tree calf gilt, gilt arms of Stuart of Rothesay on sides (endpapers dated 1811); cloth folding case. Provenance : Sir Charles Stuart Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), G.C.B. and privy councillor, minister at the Hague (1815-16), ambassador to Paris, and St. Petersburg, 1841-45 (binding); SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS (shelfmark and inscribed "MHC" in pencil on front free endpaper); Philip Robinson (his sale, part I, Sotheby's London, 23 June 1988, lot 284). THE VERY FINE BARON STUART DE ROTHESAY-SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS COPY OF THIS MAJOR WORK OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION DESCRIBING THE THREE BARENTSZ VOYAGES IN SEARCH OF A NORTHEAST PASSAGE TO THE FAR EAST. FIRST EDITION IN LATIN. In the latter part of the 16th-century the English and the Dutch attempted to discover a northeastern trading route to the Far East by sea. After several failed attempts the English gave up, never reaching further than to Novaya Zemlya. De Veer's account describes the three voyages undertaken by Willem Barentsz (ca 1550-1597) in the form of an illustrated diary. On the first two of these expeditions Barentsz was accompanied by Jan Huyghens van Linschoten, famed for his voyage to the East. The first voyage of 1594 sailed the length of Novaya Zemlya and then via Vaygach to the Kara Sea. Believing they had found the Northeast Passage, the Dutch set out on a second expedition the following year with ships loaded heavily with trading goods intended for the Chinese, but this trip was thwarted by frozen waters. The third voyage of 1596-97, which takes up most of De Veer's account, is one of the most important in the history of Polar exploration. After the discovery of Bear Island and Spitsbergen, Barentsz sailed to Novaya Zemlya, eventually rounding the northern cape. The ship was crushed in ice, and the expedition members were forced to make the first recorded overwintering this far north, surviving in a hut constructed of driftwood. Barentsz died on this third voyage, but the surviving members (including De Veer, who had also participated in the second voyage) managed to reach the Kola Peninsula where they found three Dutch ships which assisted in their return to the Netherlands. The illustrations depict the many hardships, including the construction of the camp on the ice, numerous encounters with polar bears, and many other scenes of the expeditions. De Veer's important account was first published in 1598 in Dutch, with this Latin and the French editions appearing in the same year. Adams V-316; Alden & Landis 598/113; JCB (3) I:369; Tiele 1130 ( Memoire bibliographique sur les journaux des navigateurs nierlandais [Bibliographical Memoir on the Journals of Dutch Navigators], Amsterdam: Muller, 1867; reprinted, Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1960).
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