The accompanying Map, which has been reproduced by Mr. F. Muller of
Amsterdam, is issued to Members of the Hakluyt Society, to be bound up
with the volume containing the Three Voyages of Barents. It is the
first Map on which the track of Barents, in his third voyage, is shown.
The Map is stated (on legends at the top, and also at the foot—to the
right) to have been drawn by Willem Barents himself (“Auctore Wilhelmo
Bernardo”). It was probably drawn by him at his winter quarters in
Novaya Zembya, and brought home by Heemskerk. The legend at the foot
further states that the map was engraved by Baptista-a-Doetichem,
probably a son of Lucas-a-Doetichem, who engraved the plate of the
funeral of Charles V, in 1558. The thirty-six plates in the tenth
edition of Linschoten’s Itinerarium, were all engraved by the son
Baptista, of Doetichem, which is a small town in Guelderland.
In the same legend it is added “Cornelius Nicolai excudebat.” The Dutch
name of this publisher is Cornelius Claeszoon. He was the celebrated
publisher at Amsterdam who published the three editions of Linschoten’s
Itinerarium in 1595 and 1604, in Dutch. In 1599 he brought out an
abridged Latin translation, in the second part of which is inserted a
short narrative of the Arctic Expedition; quite distinct from the
larger work written by Linschoten, and published in 1601 by Gerard
Ketel at Franeker in Friesland, with entirely different maps, and
without a narrative of the Arctic voyage.
It is, therefore, clear that the map was first published in 1599 by
Cornelius Claeszoon (who was also publisher of the Journal of De Veer),
in the second part of the abridged Latin edition of Linschoten’s
Itinerarium; but it is wanting in some copies of this second part.