MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- SCHOUTEN, W. Reys-togten naar en door Oost-Indien; in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eylanden, etc. naauwkeurig word beschreven. Doorgaans gemengt met veel vreemde voorvallen, ongemeene geschiedenissen, bloedige zee- en veldslagen, zoo met de Portugyzen en Makassaren, als andere. 2e dr. Amst., A. v. Damme, 1708. 3 in 1 vol. (8), 328, 253, (25) pp. W. engr. front., portr. of the author, 43 (fold.) engr. plates & 4 text-engrs. 4°. Cont. h. vellum. (New endpapers, annot. in blue pencil on free endpaper, some fold. plates rep. on folds, margins of plates cut on plate edge in places, a few tiny tears, a bit soiled/thumbed in places).
Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) descended from a well-to-do Haarlem family. In 1658 he was appointed vice-surgeon at the East India Company. His travel-story also contains many interesting medical observations. 'Titelauflage' from the 1676 edition. - Landwehr, VOC, 284, Tiele 990; Cat. NHSM 174; Lipperheide Ld2.€ 360