Document Record

Creator

Gerritsz, Hessel, 1581?-1632.
Hudson, Henry, d. 1611.
Massa, Isaac Abrahamszoon, 1586-1643.
Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622.
Queiros, Pedro Fernandes de, d. 1615.

Title

Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti : sive transitus ad occasum suprà terras Americanas in Chinam atq, Iaponem ducturi, recens investigati ab M. Henrico Hudsono Anglo : item, exegesis Regi Hispaniae facta, super tractu recens detecto, in quintâ orbis parte, cui nomen Avstralis incognita : cum descriptione terrarum Samoiedarum & Tingoesiorum in Tartariâ ad ortum Freti VVaygats sitarum nuperq, sceptro Moscovitarum adscitarum.

Published

Amsterodami : Ex officina Hefselij Gerardi, 1613.

Identifier

oocihm.93862
93862

Subject

America -- Discovery and exploration -- British.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British.

Document source

Electronic reproduction.

Notes

Edited by H. Gerritsz.
First printed account of Hudson's discoveries in the Canadian Arctic, and the first map of Hudson's Bay and adjacent territory.
References: Alden, J.E. European Americana, numbers 613/63; Sabin 33491; Cf. JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, volume 2, pages 95-96 (2nd edition, 2nd issue)
Second Latin edition, 1st issue; 2nd issue of the Latin edition has appendix of 2 leaves at end. First Latin edition published: Amsterdam, 1612.
Text in Latin.
Translated by Reiner Telle -British Library Catalogue, 1975.
1 online resource.
[47] pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Collection

Monographs

Language

Latin
English

URL

https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.93862