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America pars vndecima: : seu Descriptio admirandi itineris a Guillielmo Schouten Hollando peracti: qua ratione in meridionali plaga freti Magellanici novum hactenuśque incognitum in mare Australe transitum patefecerit: quas item terras, insulas, gentes, reśque mirabiles in dicto Australi Oceano obvias habuerit.

Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon, -1625, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623, Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611, Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-, Spilbergen, Joris van, approximately 1568-1620. Oost- ende West-Indische spiegel. Latin. Selections · 1619 · Oppenheimii : Typis Hieronymi Galleri. · 10 pictures

This is a 1619 Latin account published at Oppenheim by the de Bry family, recording Willem Schouten's voyage round Cape Horn and the Australian Ocean for a learned European readership. The pictures are ornamental engraved headpieces and friezes of scrolling foliage, masks and grotesques, printed in black on cream paper, offering a designer dense Renaissance strapwork patterns to adapt for borders, panels and tattoo-like motifs.

Le Maire, Jacques, 1585-1616 · Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie · Voyages around the world · Imprint 1619 · Imprint 1620

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