78/2957 [Asia]. Schouten, W. Reistogt naar en door Oostindiën, waar in de voornaamste landen, stéden, eilanden, bergen, rivieren, enz. (...) en het merkwaerdige in de dieren, planten en gewassen der Indische gewesten (...). Doormengd met (...) berigten van bloedige zee- en veldslagen met de Portugeesen, Makassers en anderen. Utr./ Amst., Wed. J.J. van Poolsum a.o./ M. de Bruyn, 1775, 4th rev. ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., (4),XIV,323; (8),211,(21)p., engr. frontisp., portrait, 46 (of 47) mainly fold. plates, contemp. calf, 4to.

- Lacks the 4 maps and the final plate; contents partly foxed/ soiled. Binding repaired but still in poor condition. Sold w.a.f.

= Tiele 991; Rouffaer/ Muller p.55; Mendelssohn II, p.279; Landwehr VOC, 285. Modernised edition of Wouter Schouten's popular voyage to the Dutch East Indies, the first with the maps (Java, Ambon, Ceylon, nautical world map), the plates newly etched/ engraved by C. Decker. Howgego S66: "Schouten was an observant traveller who explored inland into the environs of nearly every port-of-call, sometimes by himself or with a small group of comrades. His narrative, full of anecdotes as well as information gleaned about countries he had not visited, became particularly popular with readers in the eighteenth century, when it was republished in no fewer than seven editions."