Jan Huygen van Linschoten
Voyasie, ofte Schip-vaert, van by Noorden om langes Noorwegen de Noordt-Caep, Laplandt, Vinlandt, Ruslandt, de Witte Zee……

second edition, illustrated engraved title, with decorative border, 15 engraved folding plates and maps by J. and B. van Doetecum., Amsterdam, J. E. Cloppenburg 1624, bound together with Itinerarium, ofte schip-vaert nae Oost ofte Portugaels Indien (Reys-gheschrift vande Navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten; Beschrijvinge vande gantsche Custe van Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, Monomotapa en tegen over de Cabo de S. Augustijn in Brasilien), 3 parts in one, half-title, two titles within engraved border, third title with engraved vignette depicting a ship and four ports, engraved portrait of the author, 6 folding maps as called for, 36 engraved plates, with blank leaf g4 at end of third section, contemporary vellum, blind-stamped lozenge to upper and lower covers, green leather lettering label, lacking original ties [STCN 853151873,Tiele pp83-101], Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1644, folio. A fine example of both titles.

***Voyasie, a rare description of pioneering Arctic voyages in search of the North-East Passage to China. The map comprises Norway and parts of Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, and is the last engraving in the work. It is accurately and decoratively engraved by Johannes van Doetecum and his son Baptista, and includes 3 illustrations in the lower right-hand corner depicting Nenet huntsmen, a reindeer sled, and some Nenet gods. The second edition can be identified by the spelling of 'Voyasie' on the title-page, and the fact that the 15 double-page plates of maps each have binding placement instructions in the lower right-hand corner of each plate. 'Both the 1601 (first edition which has never appeared at auction ) editions are scarce' (Ginsberg); both were published in Dutch, and no translation has appeared. According to ABPC/RBH, the last copy of this 1624 second edition sold in that time was lot 122 at Christie's July 11^th, 2018, bound in a single volume together with the 3 volume 1644 edition of Linschoten's Itinerarium, which is an important work on the sea routes of west Africa, Brazil, India, and the East and West Indies, together with Linschoten's account of his travels in the Orient.