Descriptio totius Guineæ tractus, Congi, Angolæ, et Monomotapæ,
eorumque locorum, quæ e regione C. S. Augustini in Brasilia jacent,
etc. Accedit noviter historia navigationum Batavorum in
Septentrionales Oras, Polique Arctici tractus, cum Freti Vaygats
detectione summa fide relata.
Hagæ-Comitis. Ex officinâ Alberti Henrici. Anno 1599. folio.
The narrative of the Three Navigations to the North, which occupies
nine pages, commences at page 17, with the following head-title:—
Historia trium navigationum Batavorum in Septentrionem.
Admirabilium ac nunquam ante auditarum trium navigationum Batavorum
in Septentrionales Oras detegendi Freti Vaygats gratia, et in Novam
Zemblam, per hactenus incognita Maria, fidelis relatio.
This abstract appears to have been made by Linschoten himself, as Camus
states (p. 191) that this Latin edition of his works was translated by
himself from the Dutch of 1596.
Although the description of Guinea, to which this abstract forms an
appendix, has a separate title-page and pagination, it is shown by the
register to form part of—
Navigatio ac Itinerarium Johannis Hugonis Linscotani in Orientalem
sive Lusitanorum Indiam ... Collecta ... ac descripta per eundem
Belgice, nunc vero Latine redditum Hagæ Comitis ex officinâ Alberti
Henrici. Impensis authoris et Cornelii Nicolai, prostantque apud
Ægidium Elsevirum. Anno 1599. Fol.
From the circumstance of this abstract appearing at the end of
Linschoten’s work, it has been by some confounded with his narrative of
his own two Arctic voyages.
Dutch. In 1646, another abstract of the original narrative appeared in
the first volume of the Dutch collection, entitled:—
Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche
Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. 1646. obl. 4to.
This important work, which is profusely illustrated, has no editor’s
name or place of imprint. It was, however, edited by Isaak Commelin, a
learned Amsterdammer, and printed at Amsterdam, as we learn from
Chalmot’s Biographisch Woordenboek de Nederlanden, in art. Commelin
(Isaak). Chalmot had a good authority for this statement, namely, Isaak
Commelin’s son, Kasper, who, at page 866 of his Beschryvinge van
Amsterdam, declares his father to have been the editor, further
mentioning that this and other works were all printed at Amsterdam by
Jansson.