78/1054 [Oceania]. Heeres, J.E. (ed.). Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of His Discovery of Van Diemens Land and New Zealand in 1642, with Documents relating to his Exploration of Australia in 1644. Being Photo-Lithographic Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript in the Colonial Archives at the Hague With an English Translation and Facsimiles of Original Maps to Which Are Added Life and Labours of Abel Janszoon Tasman (...) and Observations made with the Compass on Tasman's Voyage (...). Amst., Frederik Muller & Co., 1898, (10 [prel.]),(195 [facs.]),1(blank)),(2),59 [transl.],(1 blank); (2),163 [biogr.],(1 blank),(2),21 [Observations]p., Errata slip and 5 large (partly col.) fold. maps in rear pocket, num. maps and illustrations in the text (incl. 41 full-page and 4 double-p. (some partly col.)), orig. gilt vellum w. ties, t.e.g., folio, in custom-made clamshell cl. box.

- Endpapers foxed. Binding trifle warped.

= First edition of the first complete English translation of Tasman's journal, produced in only 200 copies. Hocken 1; Ferguson 16722; Cox II, p.311f; Davidson p.30 ("Indispensable to the study of early Australian discovery"). A sumptuous publication. SEE ILLUSTATION PLATE XXI.