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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  78
• Lot Description:
  Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon. Die sechtzehende Schifffahrt Journal
  oder Beschreibung der wunderbaren Reise Wilhelm Schouten auss Hollandt im Jahr 1615. 16. vnd 17. Darinnen er eine neuwe Durchfahrt neben dem Freto Magellanico, welche bisshero noch vnbekannt gewesen, in die Suyd See entdeckt. Small quarto, pp. 90, [2] (blank) + five plates, and four folding maps (one with a short clean split), with an engraved vignette on the title-page, a little browned and a few minor blemishes but a very good copy with a number of meteorological comments and marginalia in a 17th-century hand, bound in later vellum, edges gilded and gauffered. Frankfurt am Mayn, Durch Nicolaum Hoffmann sumptibus Hulsianis, 1619.
• Notes:
  Extremely rare: the first edition of this German edition of the important expedition of Le Maire and Schouten, “the last seventeenth-century expedition to search for Terra Australis from the east” (Schilder), during which the passage from the south Atlantic into the Pacific via Cape Horn was discovered. The voyage was made on behalf of a group of Dutch traders known as the Australian Company, established to compete with the Dutch East India Company and to search for the elusive Terra Australis. By sailing through Le Maire Strait south of the Straits of Magellan and rounding Cape Horn for the first time, Le Maire and Schouten established the existence of a passage from the South Atlantic into the Pacific, a discovery that proved to be of the greatest importance for the future history of Pacific exploration. Although the voyage failed to find the Southland, it did establish that no great southern continent extended to the Straits of Magellan, as shown in the speculative maps of Mercator and Ortelius. This is the only edition of the sixteenth in the series of twenty-six voyage pamphlets published in Frankfurt by Levinus Hulsius – the series is commonly known as the “Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten” although that ‘title’ was not used by Hulsius to his series. The rarity of this piece cannot be exaggerated: we have traced only one sale record for this book, by the prominent Californian bookseller John Howell Books, and that was this very copy. Alden, 619/113; Sabin, 33669, 77956; Schilder, pp 32-6.
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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