The East and West Indian mirror : being an account of Joris van Speilbergen's voyage round the world (1614-1617), and the Australian navigations of Jacob Le Maire / translated with notes and an introduction by J.A.J. De Villiers.

  • Spilbergen, Joris van, approximately 1568-1620.
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1906
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The East and West Indian mirror : being an account of Joris van Speilbergen's voyage round the world (1614-1617), and the Australian navigations of Jacob Le Maire / translated with notes and an introduction by J.A.J. De Villiers. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1906.

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lxi pages, 3 leaves, 272 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps (some folded), portrait, plan ; 23 cm.

Notes

Plates 2-25 accompanied by a leaf with letterpress
Translation of the Dutch edition "Oost ende West-Indische spiegel " Leyden 1619. The t.-p., plates and maps and various passages of the original edition, the t.-p. of the edition Amsterdam 1621, and Le Maire's portrait in the Dutch edition 1622 of A. de Herrea's Indias Occidentales are reproduced in facsimile
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Bibliography: (p. [233]-251) and Index by B.H. Soulsby

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