ALLEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CETACEA AND SIRENIA. 409 



1612. [HUDSON, HENRY] Continued. 



gien, belanghende de ontdeckinghe ende gelegenheyt van 't Land glienaemt 

 Australia Incognita, 't Amsterdam, by Hessel Gerritsz. A. 1612. 4. Met 

 3 kaarten." 



Not seen; title transcribed from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 233, no. 3427. The title as given by 

 Fr. duller (Cat. Am. Books, 1877, p. 80) is abbreviated by the omission of the second and 

 third sentences, and also otherwise. As the two titles otherwise differ, it is doubtful whether 

 either is literally given, Bosgoed's appearing to be psJrtly modernized in orthography. Mul- 

 ler's English rendering of his is as follows: "Description of the country of the Samoyedes in 

 Tartary, With an account of the research and of the discovery of the new passage or strait 

 in the North-West to the empires of China and Cathav (by Henry Hudson). And a memorial 

 offered to the King of Spain (by P. F. de Quir) concerning the discovery and the situation 

 of the Land called Australia Incognita." (For the title of the Latin translation, published 

 the following year, see 1613. HUDSON, H.) 



Respecting the present Dutch edition, Mullcr says: "Of this original Dutch edition of tho 

 famous Detectio freti . . . hardly 4 or 5 copies are known in all the European libraries. . . . 

 This original book is the foundation-stone for the history of Hudson's and other arctic expe- 

 ditions, etc. The collection formed by Hesscl Gerritsz consists of four tracts, by Is. Massa, 

 F. de Quir, and the editor, Hessel Gerritsz himself." F. MULLEU, Cat. Amer. Books, 1877, 

 p. 80, no. 1425. [42.1 



1313. " GEKRITZ. VAN ASSUM, HESSEL. Histoiro du pays nomme Spitsberghe. Mon- 

 strant comment qu'il est trouv6e, son uaturel et ses animauls, avecques la triste 

 racompte des matix, que nos pecheurs tant Basques quc Flainens, ont eu a 

 souffrir des Anglois, en I'este" pass6e PAn dc grace, 1013. Escrit par H[essel]. 

 G[erretsz]. [dej A[ssum]. Et en apres uiic protestation contre les Angloys, et 

 ammllatiou de touts leurs fri voles argumens, parquoy ils pensent avoir droict, 

 pour se faire Maistre tout seul, dudict pays. En Amsterdam, a Peuseigne de 

 la carte nautiq. MDCXII [sic] Chez Hessel Gerritsz. 4. Met 2 kaarteu en 

 eene plaat." 



Not seen; title from Bosgoed, op. cit, p. 236, no. 3462. Muller's collation gives the date r.8 

 1613, and "2 maps and 2 pi." (Cat. Am. Books, etc., 1877, p. 80, no. 1423.) 



The original edition is "of the utmost rarity." A fac-simile reprint (of 50 copies only) was 

 issued in 1872 by Fr. Muller (Amsterdam), "with the real old types" of the 17th century, on 

 old paper. [43.] 



1613. HUDSO::, H. Descriptio ac delineatio Geographica | Detectio- | nis Freti, j Sivo 



Transitus ad Occasum supra | terras Americanas, in Chinam | atq* laponem 

 ducturi. | Recens investigati abM. Heurico Hudsono Anglo. | Item, | Exegesis 

 Regi Hispani;e facta super | tractu recens detecto, in quinta Orbis parte, cui 

 nomen, | Avstralis Incognita. | Cam descriptione | Ternirum Samoiedarum, 

 & Tingoesiorurn, in | Tartaria ad Orturn Freti Waygats sitarum, uuperq? | 

 sceptro Moscovitarum adscitarum. | Amsterodami | | Ex Officina Hesselij 

 Gerardi. Anno 1613. sm. 4. 11. 25, unpaged, 4 folded maps and 3 cuts. 



Contains " Veram Effigiem Balenarum " (a half-page cut), and 8 lines of descriptive tert. 

 It occupies a separate leaf at the end of the book in two copies examined (in Harvard College 

 Library), occurring after the word "Finis,' 1 which closes the preceding page. It almost has 

 the appearance of not belonging to the book. Neither of these copies contain Hessel Ger- 

 rard's remarkable picture of the Walrus, said to occur in some copies of this work. (Cf. 

 ALLEN, Hist. N. Amer. Pinnipeds, 1880, pp. 96, 97.) 



"On this small but highly important work, see at large: Tiele, pp. 179 to 190, and my: 

 Essai (Tune Bibliographie Neerl. Eusse, 1859, pp. 71, 103-100, especially on the unknown author, 

 Is. Massa, of Haarlem. It contains: 1. the discovery of the Hudson bay, etc. in 1611, with 

 map, with additions to the former edition of 1612; 2. the account of F. de Quir on Australia; 

 3. and 4. the description of the Samoyedes, their country, etc., etc., by Is. Massa, of Haar- 

 lem." F. MULLER, Cat. Amer. Books, 1877, p. 85, no. 1493. 



A facsimile reprint, "with the real old types " of the 17th century, on old pcper, has been 

 recently published at Amsterdam by Frederik Muller & Co. [44.] 



1615 (circa?) VELDE, Es. VAN DEX. " Pot-Wai viscb, gestrandt by Xoortwyck op Zee, 

 den 28 Dec. 1614. Door Es. van den Velde. kl. br. fol." 



"Eene nndere druk met adres van C. J. Visscher. Van deze prent bestaat ook eene 

 teekening in sepia door J. van de Velde." 



Not seen; title from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 176, no. 2775, who refers to Muller'a "Historie- 

 prenten, no. 1292-1293." [ 45 -l 



