Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/50
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Voyagie Gedaen met ses Scheepen, door de Straet Magalanes, naer de Molucques . . . inden Jare 1614-17. Shipping vignette on title, engraved portrait, and 8 engraved or woodcut illustrations of shipping scenes, etc. 4to. New half blue levant morocco, gilt, g. e. Amsterdam, G. ]. Saeghman, circa 1648. £8 8s Spilbergen had conducted a successful expedition to the East Indies in 1602-8, and in 1614 the Dutch East India Company gave him the command of six vessels with orders to sail to the Molucca Islands via the Straits of Magellan. After various mutinies and other difficulties, he sailed through the Straits and along the Coast of Peru, committing many depredations on Spanish ports and shipping. In November, 1615, he commenced his voyage across the Pacific. He discovered several small islands, and finally arrived at the Ladrone or Mariana Islands, then sailed to the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, where he took on board the crews of Le Maire and Schouten, whose vessels had been confiscated. He arrived back in Holland on July Ist, 1617. | Bookes, contayning the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World. Fine engraved title and folding maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Thick folio. Old original calf. London, Henry Seile, 1657. £4 4s This, the Second Edition, contains at the end an additional section, with separate title-page, reading: ‘‘ An Appendix to the Former Work, endeavouring a Discovery of the Unknown Parts of the World. Especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent. By Peter Heylin. London, Printed for Henry Seile, 1656.”’ This contains a very curious discourse on the ‘‘ Terra Australis’’ and its supposed immense size, as large as Europe, Asia and Africa!, with special sections devoted to Terra del Fuego, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Mundus Alter et Idem (‘‘a witty and ingenious invention of a learned Prelate,’ i.e., Bishop Hall), Utopia (a country first discovered by Sir Thomas More), New Atlantis (discovered by Sir Francis Bacon), Faerie Land, The Painters Wives Island, Lands of Chivalrie, and The New World in the Moon. Details are given concerning the voyages of Quiros, Magellan, Hawkins, Sibald de Weert, Le Maire, Saavedra, etc.
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