Item #4401830 Journael, ofte dach-register vande Voyagie… Naer de Oost-Indien, in den Iaren 1601 1602 ende 1603. Vervattende de vermaerde zee-slagh, met zijn 5 schepen gedaen voor Bantam…. DUYFKEN, Wolfert HARMENSZ.

Journael, ofte dach-register vande Voyagie…
Journael, ofte dach-register vande Voyagie… Naer de Oost-Indien, in den Iaren 1601 1602 ende 1603. Vervattende de vermaerde zee-slagh, met zijn 5 schepen gedaen voor Bantam…

Amsterdam: Jan Jansz, 1645.

Oblong folio, 28 pp.; bound in full dark-brown oasis.

The first voyage of the Duyfken: one of very few references to the ship in print

First edition of one of the first Dutch voyages across the Indian Ocean, published as one of the separate pieces that were also combined to make up Commelin's voyage collection Begin ende Voortgangh. This is one of remarkably few printed references to the Duyfken, the tiny ship of huge importance to Australian history.

First edition of one of the first Dutch voyages across the Indian Ocean, published as one of the separate pieces that were also combined to make up Commelin's voyage collection Begin ende Voortgangh. This is one of remarkably few printed references to the Duyfken, the tiny ship of huge importance to Australian history.

Harmensz was in joint command of the third major voyage by the Dutch to the East-Indies, the so-called Moluccan Fleet of 1601-1603 which set out to establish a new Dutch presence in the East Indies. The five ships reached Bantam, Java, at the end of 1601 where they were confronted by a substantial Portuguese fleet of thirty ships under the command of Andrea Fortade de Mendoça. Harmensz's conquest of the Portuguese fleet marked a turning point in the history of the region, bringing to a close the domination of the Portuguese and Spanish in the Spice Trade to Europe.

Of special interest to us today is that one of the five ships of Harmensz's fleet was the Duyfken, then under the command of Willem Cornelisz Schouten. This was her first voyage; returning to Europe in 1603, she was quickly turned round and came back to the East Indies in the fleet of van der Hagen with Willem Janszoon as skipper. She was sent separately to the southeast, and early in 1606, sailing alone, she coasted Cape York Peninsula, making the first authenticated sighting of Australia by Europeans, as well as the first authenticated landing of Europeans on Australian soil. In 1607, she may have made a second voyage east to Australia.

The famous replica of the ship, launched in 1999, is now permanently in the collection of the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Landwehr, 'VOC', 250 (9); Tiele, 'Bibliography', 1206; Tiele, 'Mémoire', 162.

Condition Report: Waterstains in margins but in good condition.

Price (AUD): $8,500.00

US$5,533.42   Other currencies

Ref: #4401830

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