GAP0001 Michael Rohrlach Leipzig 1702 Small 8vo. 165 x 98 mm. Engraved title, [14], 1004, [70] pp., 5 engraved maps (4 folding), 7 plates, 2 folding tables. Nice contemporary full brown calf with gilt title and spine gilt. Spine gilt partly flaked off, very small piece missing at foot of spine, minimal browning, on the whole a very nice copy. * First German edition of Dampier's 'A new Voyage round the world etc. (1697), translated from the French edition of 1698. Pages 837 to 854 contain a description of New Holland (geography, flora and fauna, Aborigines). The map after page 516 shows The East Indies and Nova Hollandia sive Terra Australis. "After touching at Sulawesi and Timor, they reached the coast of New Holland (northwestern Australia) and the region which was to become known as Dampier Land. Rounding Swan Point, they anchored in Cygnet Bay in King Sound, where Dampier went ashore and on one of the islands found fourty Aborigines." (Howgego). Howgegeo I, D7. Greenway 2563 (for the English edition). A second part or 'Anderer Theil' covering the rest of the voyage from Achin to Sumatra, Tonquin, Malacca and other places in the East Indies was published in 1703. In 1707 and 1714 a German translation of Dampier's 'A voyage to New Holland' (1703-1707) was published in German translation, confusingly also under the series title of 'Neue Reise um die Welt' when in fact they are an entirely separate works. $4950.00AUD
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