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First edition of Baldaeus description of India and Sri Lanka, with extensive description of the indian mythology and religion.
Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, Derzelver aangrenzende Ryken, En het machtige Eyland Ceylon. Nevens een omstandige en grondigh doorzochte ontdekking en wederlegginge van de Afgoderye der Oost-Indische Heydenen. Waar inne der zelver grootste Geheymenissen zoo uyt de eygene Geschriften als t?Zamenspraak en Bywooninge der voornaamste Bramines en andere Indiaansche Wet-Geleerden getrouwelijk werden aan ?t licht gebracht. Zijnde hier by gevoeght een Malabaarsche Spraak-konst; Zeer dienstigh voor alle die het lust met dien Landaard om te gaan. Met Kaarten en afbeeldingen van Landen, Steden, Drachten, Boomen, Vruchten, na het leven in Indiën afgeteekent en kurieus in kooper gesneden.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waasberge en Johannes van Someren, 1672. Folio (335 x 210 mm). 5 ll., 198 pp., 1 lf., 232 pp (= 240; pages 201-232 erroneously numbered 101-132), 1 lf., 188 pp., 6 ll.
Engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author by A. Blooteling after Sijdervelt, portrait of Director General Gerard Hulst by A. Blooteling after G. Flinck, 36 (34 double page) plates and 55 engravings by G. Appelmans in the text.
Blind tooled vellum. Spine with 6 raised bands.
First edition. The book gives extensive information on the Dutch settlements in Southern India, mentioning, among other things, the dreaded Malabar pirates infesting the western coast of India. The second part of the work deals with Ceylon, of which it contains a detailed description. The third part deals with religious practises and old Indian fables.
The author (1632-1672) was a Dutch clergyman who became a missionary in the Malabar and Choromandel districts.
Appelmans?s signature appears on the engraving on page 121. With one text part not called for in Landwehr VOC 1502, one quire (*) between F2 and F3 in part II on Ceylon.
-Literature: Cox I, 283 (English ed.); Ebert 1543; Graesse I, 279; Landwehr VOC 556; Mueller, Kaffee 13; Cat. Ned. Hist. Scheepvaart Museum I, 240; Rouffaer & Muller 341; Tiele 70.
-Condition: Upper joint upper 10 cm splitting; small upper corner lacking of some leaves in the prelims; Else a clean copy with strong impressions.
Engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author by A. Blooteling after Sijdervelt, portrait of Director General Gerard Hulst by A. Blooteling after G. Flinck, 36 (34 double page) plates and 55 engravings by G. Appelmans in the text.
Blind tooled vellum. Spine with 6 raised bands.
First edition. The book gives extensive information on the Dutch settlements in Southern India, mentioning, among other things, the dreaded Malabar pirates infesting the western coast of India. The second part of the work deals with Ceylon, of which it contains a detailed description. The third part deals with religious practises and old Indian fables.
The author (1632-1672) was a Dutch clergyman who became a missionary in the Malabar and Choromandel districts.
Appelmans?s signature appears on the engraving on page 121. With one text part not called for in Landwehr VOC 1502, one quire (*) between F2 and F3 in part II on Ceylon.
-Literature: Cox I, 283 (English ed.); Ebert 1543; Graesse I, 279; Landwehr VOC 556; Mueller, Kaffee 13; Cat. Ned. Hist. Scheepvaart Museum I, 240; Rouffaer & Muller 341; Tiele 70.
-Condition: Upper joint upper 10 cm splitting; small upper corner lacking of some leaves in the prelims; Else a clean copy with strong impressions.
€ 4.500
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