Mr. John Nieuhoff's remarkable voyages & travells into ye best provinces of ye West and East Indies Image Stanford University Public content

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Description
English edition of Gedenkwaardige Brasiliaense Zee en Landt-Reize. Relief shown pictorially. Latitudinal and longitudinal lines along margins of some maps. Leather binding. First 2 and last 2 pages blank (included in page description). Engraved frontispiece, illustrations throughout, including depictions of figures (e.g. "A souldier of Amboina"), architecture (e.g. "The Church of the Cross of Batavia"), plants and animals (e.g. "Living creatures of Malabar," and extensive catalogue of fish) and portrait of "Mr. Jno. Nieuhoff." "Adorned with copper plates, done after the life" and "Translated from the Dutch original" on title page. Introductory text. Descriptive text accompanies maps. Decorative banners and cartouches (including explorers, indigenous figures, cherubs), compass roses, rhumb lines, bar scales, indexes, routes. Maps show topography, vegetation, waterways, shoals, ports. Illustrations of cities, topography, flora, fauna, ships, figures. Maps 2, 3, 13, 18 are city plans. Maps 4-6, 8-10, 12, 14-17, 19 are views; Map 13 is a bird's eye view. Map 15 shows siege. This copy has pencil inscriptions inside front cover, including: 7. Pagination skips pages 157-180. Page 286 missing page number; 287 misprinted as 286; 288 missing page number, 289 misprinted as 287; 290 as 288, and 2-page discrepancy carries forward.
Publisher
printed for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater Noster Row,
Collection
Renaissance Exploration Map Collection
Place(s)
South America, Brazil, East Indies, West Indies, Indonesia, Indian Ocean, Bengal, Bay of, and Sri Lanka
Subject(s)
Discovery and exploration
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Stanford
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