Bontekoe - Journael Ofte Gedenckwaerdige Beschrijvinge Van De Oost-indische Reijse Van Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe Van Hoorn. Opnieuw Uitgegeven En Vaan Aanteekeningen Voorzien. [eerste Druk/first Edition, Thus).

Utrecht, A. Oosthoek, 1915. Small 8°., original qtr. cloth with marbled side, title label on spine.150pp., original 17th century title-page in facsim., 2 double-p. plates in facsim. after the original engravings, descriptive bibliography of earlier works covering this famous sea-voyage, explanatory introduction ny editor, extensive explanatory notes at tail margins of words, phrases and expressions in old seventeenth century dutch language. [Herdrukken van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde, No. 1]. Excellent re-edition after the original Log in old seventeenth century dutch language, as kept by Willem Ysbrantszoon Bontekoe (van Hoorn) of his famous voyage in the service of the Dutch East India Company, V.O.C., shipwreck and arrival at Batavia, Dutch East Indies, reprinted after the edition Amsterdam 1646, which includes an explanatory dutch language introduction by editor. Bontekoe's journal became very popular through te ages and fetched many re-editions. Very good untrimmed copy.