A collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade and navigation. Containing an account of several attempts to find out the North-East Passage, and their Discoveries in the East-Indies, and the South Seas. Together with an Historical Introduction, giving an account of the rise, establishment and progress of that great body. Translated into English, and illustrated with several charts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renneville, Constantin de, ca. 1650-1723.

Standardized Title:

Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l'établissement et aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales. Vol. 1. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.

Voyages and travels.

Discoveries in geography--Dutch--Early works to 1800.

Discoveries in geography.

Indonesia--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800.

Indonesia.

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--Early works to 1800.

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([32],336p.,plates ) maps ;

Other Title:

Collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Freeman near Temple Bar, J. Walthoe in the Temple, Tho. Newborough at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church-Yard, John Nicholson at the Kings-Arms in Little Britain, and R. Parker under the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1703.

Notes:

A translation of the first volume of 'Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l'établissement et aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales', itself a translation and adaptation by René Augustin Constantin de Renneville of Isaak Commelin's 'Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie'.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Cited in:

Kress, 2404

Sabin, 14401

English Short Title Catalog, T163888.

OCLC:

642468095