Title
Iohn Huighen van Linschoten his Discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure bookes
Title Variants
Alternative:
Discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies
Alternative:
Linschoten's Voyages
Uniform: Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien
By
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611
Phillip, William.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Printed at London, By Iohn Wolfe, [1598]
Notes
Books 2-4 have separate t.p.'s., dated 1598, with engraved vignettes (maps).
Translated of: Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien.
Translated from the Dutch by William Phillip, whose initials appear on the t.p.'s of books 2-4.
Date of publication from STC.
Engraved t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes.
Text in double columns.
Some errors in pagination, not affecting text.
Signatures: pi1 A⁴ B-Q⁶ R⁸ *S² S-2A⁶ 2B⁴ 2C⁴ 2D-2P⁶ 2Q⁸(-2Q8).
Contents: The first booke: The ordering of their ships; the description of Mossambique; of the iland and towne of Ormus [etc., etc.] -- The second booke. The true and perfect description of the whole coast of Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, Monomotapa, and right ouer against them the Cape of S. Augustin in Brasilia, with the compase of the whole Ocean Seas ... -- The thirde booke. The Nauigation of the Portingales into the East Indies, containing their trauels by Sea, into East India, and from the East Indies into Portingall, also from the Portingall Indies to Malacca, China, Iapon, the Islands of Iaua and Sunda ... -- The fourth booke. A most true and certaine Extract and Summarie of all the Rents, Demaines, Tolles, Taxes, Impostes, Tributes, Tenthes, third-pennies, & incommings of the King of Spaine ... Together with a briefe and cleere description of the gouernment, power, and pedegree of the Kings of Portingall.
STC (2nd ed.) | 15691
Subjects
America
,
Brazil
,
Discovery and exploration
,
Early works to 1800
,
Voyages and travels
Call Number
DS411.1 .L735
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.153963
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/01007722
OCLC:
11138257
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