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Indiae Orientalis pars X

Indiae Orientalis pars X

qua continentur, historica relatio siue descriptio noui ad Aquilonem transitus, supra terras Americanas in Cinam atq[ue] Iaponem ducturi, quemadmodum is ab Henrico Hudsono Anglo nuper inuentus est, addita breui insularum & locorum aliorum, in itinere isto occurrentium, ex Iohannis-Hugonis Lintschottani itinerario desumpta commemoratione : item discursus ad sereniss. Hispaniae regem, super detecta nuper quinta orbis parte, terra nempè Australi incognita, à capitaneo quodam Petro-Ferdinando de Quir, &c. conscriptus : addita descriptione regionum Siberiae, Samoiediae atque Tingoesiae, in Tartaria versus ortum freti Weigatsii sitarum, quae nuper à Moscis detectae & occupatae sunt

By Johann Theodor de Bry

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Publish Date

1613

Publisher

Typis viduae Matthiae Beckeri

Language

lat

Pages

32

Description:

"This part contains four short chapters as follows: (1) An extract giving an account of the discovery of Hudson's Bay. (2) A short account of the two voyages made to the north by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, taken from the Latin edition of his voyages, published in 1599. (3) An account of De Quir's voyage and discovery of the new continent, "Terra australis incognita". (4 and 5) Extracts relative to the Samoiedes and other peoples of the north, with a description of Siberia by Isaac Massa. All of these, but the chapter to Linschoten's voyages, were translated from the collection of Hessel Gerritsz, by Gothard Artus"--Church