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copper engraving, All original plates of van Noort’s Journal (and thus also the Commelin second state) are engraved with French captions, regardless of the language edition of the book. EXTREMELY RARE – almost impossible to find. The book is rarely offered for sale, but if available, carries a tag of ca. US$ 50,000.
Map/view first published by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam in 1602, to accompany Olivier van Noort’s “Beschryvinghe vande voyagie om den geheelen werelt cloot”. Engraved by one of the foremost engravers of the day, Benjamin Wright, here the imprints are in their second state, with plate numbers in the lower corners. These figures represent the first depiction in Western print of Japanese people. print from ‘Begin Ende Voortgangh van de …'[V.O.C.], [Beginning and Progress of the Dutch East India Company…] Chapter: Schipvaerd Olivier van Noort… 1598-1601, p. 32 / 33. Extensively illustrated collection of journals by 21 navigators to the East and West Indies. Published by J. Janssonius in Amsterdam, pl. 18. “The General (Van Noort) treated the Captain very well. He was a born Japanese, named Iamasta Cittisamundo. They wear long garments much like the Polish. The Captains clothes (who was a nobleman) were of light silk, painted very artistically with all kinds of foliage and flowers. And all the Japanese are shaved bald with a razor, except in the neck where their heir grows long. They are a very courageous people in war and are of large stature. In Japan the best arms in all of the East Indies are made, swords, guns, bows and arrows, of which they gave us some. The swords are of exceptional sharpness, they told us that in Japan there are swords that can cleave three men in one single slash. When selling these swords they occasionally prove it by demonstrating it on some slaves.” [December 1600] [translated from the original Dutch narrative of van Noort]
closely cropped left and right margins.
