The Voyage of the 'Batavia'. First published in 1647, reissued with a Translation from the Original Dutch ...
Potts Point, Hordern House for the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1994 (augmented facsimile edition)/ 1647.
Octavo, xxvi, 162 pages (including the facsimile reprint, pages xxv-xxvi, 60) with 4 illustrations plus 6 folding pages of plates reproducing the 15 engravings of the original edition.
Quarter calf and marbled papered boards with a contrasting leather title-label on the spine; spine lightly sunned and scuffed; boards lightly rubbed at the corners; an excellent copy.
A facsimile of the first published account of European exploration of Australia, 'Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien' (Amsterdam, Jan Jansz, 1647, the first of six editions printed before 1700), comprising edited extracts from François [Francisco] Pelsaert's journal of the disastrous voyage of the Dutch merchant ship 'Batavia'. The fifteen illustrations depict the wreck and violent scenes of the mutiny which followed, and are the first published representations of the Australian coastline. With an English translation by Willem Siebenhaar (first published as 'The Abrolhos Tragedy' in 'The Western Mail', 1897), and a commentary by Martin Terry of the Australian National Maritime Museum. Australian Maritime Series Number Two. One of 700 copies of the standard edition; a deluxe edition of 50 numbered copies in full calf was also published. Provenance: Rollo Hammet, with his small ownership label on the front pastedown.
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