Le Grand Routier de Mer…

Reference: ms6346
Author Jan Huygen van LINSCHOTEN
Year: 1596
Zone: Title page
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 165 x 265 mm
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Reference: ms6346
Author Jan Huygen van LINSCHOTEN
Year: 1596
Zone: Title page
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 165 x 265 mm
Not Available

Description

Title page of the famous Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van J.H. van Linschoten naar Oost ofte Portugaels Indien. St Helena was an important early re-supply point for the Portuguese from the late 1400s, particularly on their return voyages from Asia.

This plate appeared in Linschoten's book in 1596, once he came back from the Indies.

The engraver for this palte was Baptista van Doetechum.

Literature

childer, Gunter, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, vol VII.

Jan Huygen van LINSCHOTEN (Haarlem, ca. 1563 - Enkhuizen 1611)

Dutch Protestant merchant, traveller and historian and geographer. He spent five years in Goa. Back in Holland, Van Linschoten sold his travel report to the Amsterdam publisher Cornelis Claesz, who published it in 1596 in a book that was beautifully illustrated with prints and maps. The Itinerario is more than a travel report: next to the account of his wanderings in the waters of the Azores, Portugal and the islands of what is now Indonesia, two further texts by Van Linschoten have been included in the volume. These are the Beschryvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea (Description of the entire coast of Guinee) and the Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten (travel report on the navigations of the Portuguese in the East). The significance of this first Dutch compilation on India is primarily to be found in the valuable sailing instructions it contains: nautical data on currents, depths, islands and sandbanks, information sea captains could not do without if they wanted to navigate safely.

Literature

childer, Gunter, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, vol VII.

Jan Huygen van LINSCHOTEN (Haarlem, ca. 1563 - Enkhuizen 1611)

Dutch Protestant merchant, traveller and historian and geographer. He spent five years in Goa. Back in Holland, Van Linschoten sold his travel report to the Amsterdam publisher Cornelis Claesz, who published it in 1596 in a book that was beautifully illustrated with prints and maps. The Itinerario is more than a travel report: next to the account of his wanderings in the waters of the Azores, Portugal and the islands of what is now Indonesia, two further texts by Van Linschoten have been included in the volume. These are the Beschryvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea (Description of the entire coast of Guinee) and the Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten (travel report on the navigations of the Portuguese in the East). The significance of this first Dutch compilation on India is primarily to be found in the valuable sailing instructions it contains: nautical data on currents, depths, islands and sandbanks, information sea captains could not do without if they wanted to navigate safely.