Indiae Orientalis pars septima : navigationes duas, primam, trium annorum, à Georgio Spilbergio, trium navium praefecto, ann. 1601. ex Selandia in Indiam Orientalem susceptam : alteram, nouuem annorum, à Casparo Balby, gemmario Veneto, anno 1579. ex Alepo Babyloniam versus, & inde porro ad regnum Pegu vsque continuatam, continens ... / auctore M. Gotardo Arthus Dantiscano ; omnia elegantissimis ...
[4], 126, [2] p., [1], XXII, [1] plates : ill. (engravings), coat of arms, maps, port. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Place:
India
Sri Lanka
Burma
Syria
Date:
1606
Anno 1606
Notes:
Sole edition, first issue, according to Church.
Engraved title page border; dedication vignette with coat of arms of Archbishop Schwichardt; woodcut head-pieces, initials; sidenotes.
Added t.p. to ill., leaf a1 recto: Icones, hoc est, Verae variorum populorum et regum ...
Leaves of illustrations include both engraved image and letterpess description together on one side of leaf.
P. 50, 59 misnumbered 54, 69 respectively; 91-92 omitted, 95-96 duplicated in pagination sequence.
Plates VIII and IX are double.
Text contains an account of a voyage made under the command of Joris van Spilbergen to Ceylon in 1601-1604 and the relation of the voyage of Gasparo Balbi, a Venetian, to the kingdom of Pegu, via Syria, in 1579-1588.
