[Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon (?1567-1625), of Hoorn]

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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Description

The relation of a wonderfull voiage made by William Cornelison Schouten of Horne: shewing how south from the straights of Magelan, in Terra Del-fuogo: he found and discouered a newe passage through the great south sea, and that way sayled round about the world. London: T[homas] D[awson] for Nathanaell Newbery, 1619

small 4to (182 x 132mm.), [8], 82 (i.e. 83), [1]pp., illustration: woodcut map on title-page (repeated on verso of D2), extra-illustrated with engraved folding frontispiece, folding map and 5 folding plates, binding: eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece, small tears with loss (not affecting text or illustration), spotting, binding worn

Literature

STC 21828; Sabin 77962; Church 377; cf. Hill 270 (facsimile reprint only)

Catalogue Note

Schouten's work was hugely popular and went into seventeen Dutch, one Latin, one German and five French editions in addition to this English edition with the translation by William Phillip. The extra plates here are extracted from one of the Dutch editions, appearing to agree with those from the 1649 edition. The copy in the John Carter Brown Library is also extra-illustrated, albeit with the three maps and six plates that appeared in the earlier Dutch editions.

Schouten, along with Jacques Le Maire, circumnavigated the globe between 1615 and 1617, in the process rounding and naming Cape Horn.