Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

From: Nieuwen Atlas, ofte werelt-Beschrijvinge. - Between 1584 and 1668, the Dutch
made many attemps to find a northerly sea route to Asia, the Northeast Passage. The
famous over-wintering in a wooden cabin along the northeast coast of Novaya
Zemlya, the earliest recorded over-wintering this far North, during Willem Barents
third expedition (1596-97), is indicated on this fine Dutch map.
Koeman (new ed.) I, 1270: 1.
80 JONG, Dirk de, Hendrik KOBELL, Matheus SALLIETH. De nieuwe
beschryving der walvisvangst en haringvisschery. Met veele byzonderheden daar toe
betreklyk. Als deszelfs opkomst en bloei, waar, en hoedanig de walvisvangst in den
beginne geoefend wierd .. Opkomst en begin der haringvisschery, hoe de
Nederlanders daar in ten allen tyde hebben uitgemunt, de manier hoe dezelve gevangen,
gekaakt, gezouten, gepakt en verzonden worden .. Amsterdam, Jan Roos,
Gerbrand Roos en H. Vermandel, 1791.
4 volumes in 1. 4to. Later half vellum, uncut. With 2 folding engraved plates by
Kobell and Sallieth of a whaling scene and haring fishery, 6 folding engraved maps,
and 13 engraved plates (3 folding). VII,96; III,116; (4),116; (4),116 pp. € 3.750,00
Second edition; first published in 1784-86. - Classic work on Dutch whaling with an
article on herring fishery. Including Heemskerk and Barentsz's winter encampment
on Nova Zemlya, several accounts of whaling expeditions i.a. near Jan Mayen Island
and Davis Strait, as well as descriptions of the types of whales, birds and fishes in
these Arctic regions. The maps depict the North Pole, Spitbergen, Nova Zemlya, Jan
Mayen Island, Greenland and Iceland. The 2 folding plates depict the famous whaling
and herring fishery scenes by Kobell and Sallieth. 'A great variety of whaling activities
are depicted here in a style typical of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch
marine painting' (Ingalis). - (Some marginal waterstaining; few lvs soiled). - A nice
uncut copy.
Cat. NHSM p.900; Tiele 104; Ingalis, Francis B. Lothrp Collection, 33-36; Kendall
Whaling Museum Prints 93. – See illustration.
Item 80