Willem Cornelisz Schouten - Journael ofte Beschryvinghe van de wonderlijcke reyse gedaen [...], inde Jaren 1615, 1616 en 1617. [...]

Willem Cornelisz Schouten - Journael ofte Beschryvinghe van de wonderlijcke reyse gedaen [...], inde Jaren 1615, 1616 en 1617. Hoe hy bezuyden de Straete van Magelanes een nieuwe Passagie tot inde groote Zuydzee ontdekt, en voort den gheheelen Aerd-kloot omgheseylt heeft. [...] - 't Amsterdam - By Willem Jansz. Blaeuw / in de Sonnewijser - 1631 - Later edition - [60] pp - Paper wrappers - 15 x 19 cm.

Condition: Fragile - with wear, minimal text loss at the top of the first two pages, some old (water) stains here and there and some traces of an antique bookworm. Rebound in a cover of early 20th century decorative paper.

Antique travelogue from the 17th century by Willem Corneliszoon Schouten van Hoorn (c. 1577-1625): "Wat Eylanden, vreemde volcken en wonderlijcke avonturen hem ontmoet zijn". In fact, the text actually was written by Jacob Le Maire (1585-1616), the son of the voyage's commissioner, Isaac Le Maire (1558-1624), a competitor of the V.O.C. Text in Dutch (mainly Gothic font).

Illustrated with title print (woodcut of a ship) and 8 fold-out copper engravings (including 3 maps; including Tierra del Fuego and Caarte vande Zuijdzee next to Chile and Peru). The prints show i.a. native Indians (under fire by Europeans), Cocos Island and 'Verraders Eiland' (= Niuatoputapu). One print with llamas, ostriches, penguins and sailors clubbing fur seals to death. 

The same scene also shows early archaeologists with a skull (a 'Crystal Skull'?) and an excavated skeleton of a giant (about 3 meters long, a Bigfoot?).

¶ Rare. The first edition appeared in 1618. This edition (published in the same year in which Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1571-1638) published his atlas) is not present in NCC; Not in Landwehr; Tiele (from 981) only lists earlier and later editions; Memoire (idem, p. 42-44). "Merkwaardig is vooral de Caarte van Nova Guinea" (present in our copy); Howgego L84 and S65: "It is possible that he named Kaap Hoorn (Cape Horn) after his birthplace".