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Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
Constitutes the third part of Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten in verschiedene fremde Länder durch Levinus Hulsius und einige Andere, aus dem Holländischen ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit allerhand Anmerrkungen versehen, compiled by Levinus Hulsius, and printed in 26 parts in Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1598 to 1663.
Translation, with some abridgements, of: Waarachtige beschrijving van drie seylagien, ter werelt noyt soo vreemt ghehoort, drie jaeren achter malcanderen deur de Hollandtsche ende Zeelandtsche schepen by noorden Noorweghen, Moscovia ende Tartaria, na de coninckrijcken van Catthai ende China ..., / by Gerrit de Veer, first printed Amsterdam, 1598.
First edition printed in Nuremberg, 1598 under title: Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart, so die holländischen und seeländischen Schiff gegen Mitternacht, drey Jar nach einander, als Anno 1594. 1595. vnd 1596. verricht. Two plates present in the first edition have been omitted from this, the second edition and the text has been much abridged, according to Church.
Signatures: A-O⁴ (A1, O4 versos blank)
All numbered pages have numbers printed at the top in the center.
Engraved vignette of a Hollander and a Sami with a ship stranded on the ice on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
Church, E.D. Discovery, no. 269.
Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 130.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675 I: p. 453.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 612/136.
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