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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of 1614 Edition, London: Felix Kyngston for William Welby. STC 810. "Dedicated to Sir Thomas Smith, first governor of the East India Company and later Treasurer of the Virginia Company whose charter he was instrumental in procuring. Translated from the Danish by an English merchant, its choice of phrases well illustrates the close links between the study of eastern languages at the time and the utilitarian demands of trade." English - Malay versions in parallel two columns, with a bit of English - Malagasy as well. Translation by Augustine Spalding of Danish work by Gotthard Arthus, which appears to have been taken by the author from F. de Houtman's Spraeck ende woordboek in de Maleysche ende Madagaskarsche talen. ; The English Experience, Its Record In Early Printed Books Published In Facsimile; Ex-Library; Vol. 640; 78 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. [TRAVELS AND CARTOGRAPHY] FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. (xviii) 616 [612], two fold-out plates. Roman letter, little Italic. Two fold-out plates with five engraved maps of the hemispheres (including the Americas and Japan), Southern Asia, Middle East and Persia, and a world portolan; decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Age browning (poor quality paper), minor repair at lower gutter of t-p, scattered ink spots, some light waterstaining to lower outer corner of a few gatherings, one fold-out map mounted. A good copy in C19 antique-style mottled calf, edges sprinkled red, spine single gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label, silk bookmark. A good copy of the FIRST EDITION of this collection of travel reports from Asia and Africa. Born in Gdansk, Gotthard Arthus (1570-1630) studied at Jena and worked as co-rector at the Frankfurt Stadtschule. He struck a twenty-year long collaboration with the de Bry press to work on the Latin translation of their illustrated series 'Historia Indiae Orientalis'a fundamental work for the creation of a shared knowledge of the Orient in Europethe first volume of which was published in 1597. Arthus's work was a compilation of material also present in de Bry's. It covered not only India, Bengal, Ceylon, Malabar, Sumatra, Japan, China, the Molucchae and Philippines, but also parts of Western Africa like Mozambique and Madagascar, as well as the Azores and even, briefly, Brazil. It employed material drawn from the most recent accounts of Portuguese and Dutch expeditions and travelogues authored by Jesuit missionaries, covering a wide variety of subjects, from physical geography to flora, fauna, customs, politics and local illnesses. The beautifully engraved maps of Southern Asia, the Middle East and Persia, here in fine condition and impression, were taken from the reduced-size edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography' edited by Giovanni Antonio Magini and printed in Cologne in 1597 (Shirley 202). The world map in two hemispheres and the portolan world chart were reduced from Mercator's double-page folio version printed in 1587 (Shirley 204). NYPL, Princeton, LC, Newberry, UChicago and Minnesota copies recorded in the US.Sabin 2139; Alden 608/6; Cordier, Bibliotheca Indosinica, 120; Shirley 202 & 204; Brunet, I, 518.

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