- One leaf w. hole (w. loss of a few words); nudity of halfnaked men and women on most of the ills. and on title-vignettes censured in (near contemp.) pen and ink; one map ("De Roode Zee") dam. in margin of image; some maps strengthened w. paper on verso along margins/ on folds; all vols. w. new endpapers and all w. a stamp on htitle ("Jette S. Magdalena [...]" partly illegible); occas. sl. fingersoiled in margin; maps occas. yellowed/ sl. browned. Nevertheless a good and extremely rare set.
= Cat. NHSM 107; Tiele 10; Sabin 5; Muller, America 1887. A very good and near complete (if not complete) set of the folio edition, of which even separate vols. are rare. Each set of two vols. is devoted to the collected voyages of the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the English and the other nations. Only the voyages of the Dutch are not incorporated into the work. Each voyage has a separate title and index. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE LXXXI.