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James F. Bell Book Trust and North Central Publishing Company [Published date: 1957]. Paper covers, 12 pp, followed a 4 page facsimile copy of the letter. Translated, with an historical commentary, by Jan O.M. Broek, and a forward by John Parker.
In very good condition.. Oversized brown paper covers with map illustration running front to back. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers with a tiny bit of the color scuffed off along the edges. . Binding tight (staple bound). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. Includes 2 page map of the world by Ortelius 1587, showing Van Noort's route. [Excerpt from Foreword] Olivier Van Noort ranks among the founders of the Dutch East Indian Empire, and the letter he wrote in September 1601 is considered a cornerstone to the subsequent books, pamphlets, and manuscripts relating to the Dutch East Indies in the Bell Collection. In asking Professor Broek to bring the letter into the English language and to enlarge upon the events which prompted Van Noort to write it, we hope to call attention to a significant voyage at the beginning of an era of major importance in the history of East Indian commerce. Professor Broek has maintained the flavor of the early seventeenth-century Dutch language in his translation, and his commentary reveals much about the position of the United Netherlands at that time. In an attempt to permit the reader to see the geography of the world as Van Noort and his compatriots saw it, we include two maps in this publication. The covers are an adaptation of the map of southern South America found in Van Noort’s Description du penible voyage, Amsterdam, 1602, a recent acquisition to the Bell Collection. This map portrays the passage of Van Noort’s fleet through the Straits of Magellan. On pages 6 and 7 Van Noort’s route is traced upon a reproduction of Abraham Ortelius’ Typus orbis terrarum. The original is in the Bell Collection copy of Theatrum orbis terrarum, London, 1606.