Wieder, Frederik Caspar (Editor)
De Reis van Mahu en De Cordes door de Straat van Magalhaes naar Zuid-Amerika en Japan, 1598-1600. Scheepsjournaal, rapporten, brieven, zeilaanwijzingen, kaarten, enz. Uitgegeven en toegelicht door Dr. F.C. Wieder.
s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1923-1925. Werken uitgegeven door de Linschoten-Vereeniging, 21-22 / 24. First edition. Three-volume work, third volume includes index. 319/119/231 pages.
Handsome set is bound in blind-stamped blue cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spines and sailing ship stamped in gold on each front cover. Books are in excellent condition. Text blocks have a gilt top edge. Volumes have gray endpapers. Work is illustrated with plates and fold-out maps and charts.
Dutch-language chronicle of the expedition of Jakob Mahu and Simon de Cordes, its voyage through the Strait of Megellan and the Pacific, being the first Dutch to arrive in Japan.