Document Record

Creator

Veer, Gerrit de, fl. 1600., author
Pontanus, Johannes Isacius, 1571-1639.

Title

Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen, door't Way-gat, by noorden Noorwegen, Moscovien ende Tartarien om, na de coninckrijcken Cathay ende China, met drie schepen, uyt Texel gezeylt in den iare 1594 : hier achter is by-ghevoeght de beschrijvinghe van de landen Siberia, Samoyeda, ende Tingoesa : seer vreemt en vermaackelijck om Iesen.

Published

T'Amsterdam : Door Ioost Hartgers ..., 1648.

Identifier

oocihm.94150
94150

Subject

Barendsz, Willem,d. 1597.
North-East Passage.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.

Document source

Electronic reproduction.

Notes

Abridged version of G. de Veer's account of the 3 successive Arctic expeditions led by Willem Barendsz in search of a northeast passage to Asia, originally published in Latin. Reprinted from: Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische compagnie ... [edited by Izaäk Commelin] -[Amsterdam : publisher not identified], 1645.
De Veer's account ends pages 40; on pages 40-41 is an account of Henry Hudson's voyage to the North-East in 1609, with references to America. Also includes Pontanus' dissertation on the northeast passage: pages 54-57.
Title vignette (2 ships); 6 copperplate engravings which appeared in the text in the original edition, are here given in reduced size on one folded plate, and numbered "foly 3", "foly 4", "foly 8", et cetera.
1 online resource.
Sabin, 98739
[2], 57 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. (4to)
Text in Dutch.

Collection

Monographs

Language

Dutch
Latin

URL

https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.94150