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HEYDEN, Frans Jansz. van der

Vervarelyke schip-breuk van't Oost-Indisch jacht Ter Schelling, onder het landt van Bengale

Amsterdam
Iacob Meuss
1675

€380 - €450

4to, [8]- 96 pp, with fine engraved frontisp. and 12 engraved / etched plates, 7 signed by D. Bosboom. Some wormholes in blank margins, age-toned, few stains, otherwise fine. Modern half vellum, blue marbled boards

Second and best Dutch edition. One of the most well-known Dutch books of a disastrous voyage by the Dutch East India Company. Shipwreck on a desert island, hunger and cannibalism are the themes in this journal kept by Franz Janszoon van der Heiden, a member of the crew. The gruesome massacre of captives by the Nabob is described and followed by accounts of the kingdoms of Arrakan, Martabab, Tanassery, Bengala and Patan along the coast of the Bay of Bengal from modern Bangladesh to Burma. Ref. Muller n°843

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