Eerste[-derde] schip-vaert der Hollanderen nae de Oost-Indien door de Waygats, by - Noorden Noorweghen, Moscovien ende Tartarien: zijnde verrijckt met een beschryvinge veeler aengrenfende landen, noyt in eenige voorige

Veer, Gerrit de · 1648 · Amsterdam : J. Jansz · 23 pictures

A Dutch account published in Amsterdam in 1648 by Gerrit de Veer, recording the Dutch voyages north of Norway, Muscovy and Tartary in search of a passage to the East Indies, aimed at armchair readers and navigators. The engravings show ships among ice floes, a sea chart with compass rose, and men fighting polar bears on a frozen shore, which a designer could use for scenes of Arctic exploration, maritime maps and northern wilderness.

Barentsz, Willem, ca. 1550-1597 · Northeast Passage · Arctic regions

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