2806 - 3510: [Asia]. Valentyn, F.

83/2870 [Asia]. Valentyn, F. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java, en alle de Eylanden onder dezelve landbestieringen behoorende (...). Als ook (...) van Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap der Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Dordr./ Amst., J. van Braam/ G. onder de Linden, 1724-1726, 5 vols., engr. frontisp., 5 ident. title-vignettes, fold. portrait of the author, dedic. leaf, 269 (large) (fold.) maps, plans, views, portraits and plates, 85 textills., contemp. unif. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, folio.

- A good/ fine set: occas. trifle foxed/ fingersoiled (vol. 5 occas. sl. worse); 1 text leaf in vol. III outer margin restored. Covers sl. rubbed and scratched; bindings professionally restored.

= Vol. 4 EXTRA ILLUSTRATED w. a plan of Batavia and 2 views by Mathias de Sallieth after Hendrik Kobell (1779). Landwehr, VOC 467; Tiele 1121; Alt Japan Katalog 1570; Cordier, Japonica 426-428; Cordier, Indosinica 927-930; Cat. NHSM I, 502; Mendelssohn IV, p.594. One of the most extensive works and the main old source on the Dutch East Indies with many documents, partly lost by now. Also containing important descriptions of i.a. Cape of Good Hope, China, Japan and Ceylon and two early voyages to Australia with interesting maps. For the description of the history of Amboina, Valentyn used the unpublished and lost manuscript "Amboinsch Dierboek" by Rumphius. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.

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