Journael ofte Beschrijvinge van de wonderlijcke Reyse gedaen door Willem Cornelisz Schouten van Hoorn, inde Jaren 1615. 1616. en 1617. Hoe hij bezuyden de Straet van Magellanes een nieuwe Passagie ofte Strate tot in de groote Zuid-Zee ontdeckt ende voort den gheheelen Aertkloot omgezeylt heeft.

Without titlepage (that has a portrait of the author on the back side), but the colophon states: Amsterdam, Ian Iacobsz Bouman, 1651, 8vo., half parchment and marbled paper binding, 56 pp., illustrated with 4 small woodcuts in the text and 6 double paged illustrations outside the collation. These illustrations are pasted in and all but one are woodcuts. The one between page 38 and 39 doensn't seem to belong in this book. It is an etching instead of a woodcut and small tears are diguised with snippets of another print (not the print that should be there). This edition of 1651 is not mentioned in STCN or WorldCat, but was found in the collection of the Maritiem Museum. The print that is missing in our copy is discussed on maritiemdigitaal.nl (Hoornse Eylandt). The book has some smudged pages with greyish stains, but the woodcuts are beautiful and the bookblock solid without any torn pages. Very rare edition of the marvellous journey by Schouten. Lit.: Tiele 989, Du Rietz 522, Muller 1955f, Cox I 41 et al. "This was one of the most remarkable voyages ever undertaken and contributed much to the science of cartography, while the numerous versions in other languages attest to its popularity, indicating how much the new passage into the Sputh Seas was appreciated." (Cox)