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Hakluyt Society. Used - Very Good. 2000. Cloth, dj. Large 8vo. (Subject: Exploration.)

2000. Cloth, dj. Large 8vo.

Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 7 X 0.75 X 10 inches. 155 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Larger 8vo pp. xv, 139, 2 illustrations, 7 maps, preface, introduction, appendices, (weights, measures and currency; extant editions of the manuscript; maps, bibliography, index of persons, index of places, index of select subjects.

Describes Van den Broecke's four trading voyages he made to Africa in the early 17th century. Illustrated with a map and a full color frontispiece. Inked name on flyleaf.

xv, 139pp. 2 illustrations and 7 maps. Blue wrappers with blue cloth boards, gilt. No inscriptions, clipping, fading or wear. Hakluyt Society Series III Volume 5.

First English translation of those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe four trading voyages made to Africa in the early seventeenth century. Edited and translated by J. D. La Fleur. Hakluyt Society, Third Series, No. 5. 139pp, maps. Mint copy, as issued. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000. xv, 139 pages. Colour frontispiece, one b/w illustration and seven maps. Appendices, bibliography and indices. Original blue cloth with gilt decoration on upper board and gilt titling on the spine. *Volume 5 in The Hakluyt Society's Third Series. "The present edition offers for the first time an English translation of those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe the four trading voyages he made to Africa in the early seventeenth century. His manuscript is an important historical source because he was among the earliest of Europeans to describe in detail the communities he encountered in West Africa and Central Africa, and the sophisticated commercial strategies of Dutch merchants then trading on the Atlantic coast of Africa" (dustwrapper blurb).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.