Allen's bibliography of cetacea and sirenia. 409 



1612. [Hudson, Henry] — Continued. 



gien, belanghendc de outdeckiugho ende gclegenlieyt van 't Land glienaemi 

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

 Skaarten." 



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

 Fr. Muller {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 difFor, it is doubtful whether 

 either is literally given, Bosgoed's appearing to be paifly niod(!rnized in orthography. Hul- 

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

 oifored 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 1G13. Hudson, H.) 



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

 famous J)e«ec(io//-eii . . . hardly 4 or 5 copies arc known :n all the Euroi)Pan libraries. . . . 

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

 ditions, etc. The collection formed by Hessel. Gerritsz consists of four tracts, by la. Massa, 

 F. do Quir, and the editor, Hessel Gerritsz himself."— F. Mulleu, Cat. Amer. Books, 1877, 

 p. 80, no. liZb. [42.] 



1613. " Gekritz. VAX AssUM, Hessel. Histoirc du pays nomme Spitsbcrghe. Mon- 

 straut comment qu'il est trouv6e, sou naturel et ses animauls, avecques la tristo 

 racompte des mans, que nos ijecbeurs taut Basques que Elameus, out eu a 

 souffrir des Anglois, eu I'cstd pass^e I'An do grace, 1613. Escrit par H[essel]. 

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

 anuullatiou de touts leurs frivoles argumeus, parquoyilspensent avoir drolct, 

 pour se faire Maistre tout seal, dudict pays. En Amsterdam, a I'euseigne 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. 34G2. Muller's collation gives the date as 

 1613, and "2 maps and 2 pV—(Cat. Am. Books, etc., 1877, p. SO, no. 1423.) 



The original edition is "of the utmost rarity." A fac-siynile reprint (of 00 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 Geograpbica | Detectio- | nis Freti, | Sivo 

 Transitus ad Occasum supra | terras Americanas, in Cbinam | atcp lapouem 

 ducturi. I Recen.s investigati abM. Henrico Hudsono Auglo. | Item, | Exegesis 

 Regi Hispauiie facta super | tractu recens detecto, in quinta Orbis parte, cui 

 nomen, | Avstralis Incognita. | Cum descriptione | Terrarum Samoiedarum, 

 & Tingocsiorum, in | Tartaria ad Ortum Freti Waygats sltarum, uupercp | 

 sceptro Moscovitarum adscitarum. | Amsterodami | — | Ex Officiua Hesselij 

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



Contains "Ver.am Efhgiem Balenarum " (a half-p.age cut), .and 8 lines of descriptive te:^t. 

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

 Library), occurring after the word "Finis," which closes the preceding page. H .almost h?.8 

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

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

 Allex, Hist. X. Ainer.rinnipeds, 1880, pp. 90, 97.) 



"On this .sm.ill but highly important work, see .at large: Tiele, pp. 170 to 190, and my: 

 Bssai d'une Bibliographic Xeerl. liusse, 185!), pp. 71, 103-106, 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. do Quir on Australia; 

 3°. and 4". the description of the Samoyedes, their country, etc., etc., by la. Maaaa, of Haar- 

 lem."— F. Ml-l.LER, Cat. Amer. Books, 1877, p. 85, no. 1493. 



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

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



1615 {circa?) Velde, Es. van dex. "Pot-Walviscb, gestrandt by Noortwyck op Zee, 

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



"Eene nndero druk met adres van C. J. Visschcr. — 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's "Hist6rie- 

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



