Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies ...

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Title: Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies ...
Creator: Rogers, William, b. ca. 1545, engraver
Contributor: Windet, John, d. 1610, printer
Wolfe, John, d. 1601, printer
Abstract: Elaborately engraved title page includes depictions of "The Kinge of Cochin" (present-day Goa, India) and "The Kinge of Tangil" (in present-day Alagoas, Brazil), as well as three ships and several animals.
Description: Engraved title page has stains especially notable on verso.
In ink at top right corner: [3 initials] Cox.
In pencil on verso: Meagher.
The title page is engraved and signed: Willms Rogers ciuis Londinensis inuentor et sculptor.
Extent: 1 p.
28 cm.
b&w illustration
Language: English
Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Z3 017
Collection Title: John Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies
Collection / Other Creator: Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611
Collection Created: [London] : Printed at London by [John Windet for] Iohn Wolfe, printer to ye Honorable Cittie of London, [1598]

Format: mixed material
Genre: Engravings
Marginalia
Title pages
Subject (Name): Windet, John, d. 1610, printer
Wolfe, John, d. 1601, printer
Subject (Topic): Voyages and travels --Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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