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Issue Details: First known date: 1648... 1648 Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien
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Language: Dutch
    • Utrecht,
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      Netherlands,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Lucas de Vries ,       1649 .
      Extent: 66p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • 'The uncommon Utrecht edition, published by Lucas de Vries, notable for the dramatic new image of three views of the wreck of the vessel on the title page, an image not used by any of the other publishers... Also the second edition to print a full version of the text by adding the very significant alternative eye-witness account of the events in the form of the letter by the minister Gijsbert Bastiaenz one of the survivors of the wreck...

        'It describes Pelsaert's boat voyage along the West Australian coast to seek help at Batavia, the first extensive discovery of the Australian continent. .. The images that illustrate the publication... are the earliest printed representations of any Australian scenes.' -- Hordern House.
Alternative title: The Voyage of the Batavia
Language: English
    • Potts Point, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Hordern House , 1994 .
      Extent: xxiii, 161p., [2] folded leaves of platesp.
      Limited edition info: Edition limited to 740 copies. Also published in deluxe edition of 50 copies numbered and signed by Martin Terry.
      Description: illus., facsims
      Note/s:
      • 'First published in 1647, reissued with a translation from the original Dutch, and a commentary by Martin Terry ... '
      • Facsim. of report attributed to Pelsaert in: Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien. Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647.
      ISBN: 1875567062
      Series: Australian Maritime Series Hordern House (publisher), 1991 series - publisher Number in series: 2
Subjects:
  • Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Dongara - Geraldton - Northampton area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
  • 1628
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