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Joost HartgensAmsterdam, Adriaan Roest, 1650Tiele, Memoire nr 102 65 pp (last blank)Pp 1&2: Title page with woodcut plate6 original text engravings on copper plateSmall in quartoXIX century cut and rebound in half brown moroccoTitle in gilt on the spineHole in title page in old restoration, probably when rebound. Cut short just affecting a few of the headings.Pp 3-46: The story of the three voyages by the Dutch to find the north-east passage to Cathay (China) in 1594; 1505 and 1596 under Willem Barentszoon and Jacob van Heemskerk. This well-known text, published in 1598 is followed by a summary of Pp 46&47:the fourth voyage North for the Dutch, the third by Henry Hudson in 1609. This includes the exploration of North America s East coast about 40 degrees North motivated by letters and maps sent to him by Captain Smith and his exploration of what later became the Hudson river. Pp 48-52: Isaac Massa s description of Siberia, Samojeda en TingoessaPp 52-60: Isaac Massa s description of the roads and rivers going east from MoscoviaPp 60-64: Johannes Pontanus: Plea to discover a NE or NW passage based on the history up till 1586Second Hartgens imprint (first 1648). All Hartgens editions of the early Dutch voyages to the East are rare.Bibliography:Muller, Samuel. Detectio Freti Hudsoni, Amsterdam, Muller 1878S.P l Honore Naber. Hessel Gerritsz…Beschrijvinghe … the Hague, Nijhoff 1924S.P l Honore Naber. Reizen van Willem Barents…Noorden, the Hague, Nijhoff 1917. 2 VolsAsher, G.M. Henry Hudson de Navigator, London, Haykluyt Soc. , 1860Beke, Charles T, True description of the three voyages by the NE towards Cathay and China… London, Hakluyt 1853. N° de ref. del artículo 912

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