By Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe; Mrs. C. B. Bodde-Hodgkinson; Pieter Geyl
London   George Routledge and Sons
9" by 5.5" vii, 168, [8]pp
A fascinating, translated first English edition of Bontekoe's East Indian Voyage.
By Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe; Mrs. C. B. Bodde-Hodgkinson; Pieter Geyl

1929 Memorable Description of The East Indian Voyage 1618-25

London   George Routledge and Sons
9" by 5.5" vii, 168, [8]pp
A fascinating, translated first English edition of Bontekoe's East Indian Voyage.
£42.00
: 1kgs / : 826B6

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

First English Edition.
This is from The Broadway Travellers series, edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power. 

This edition has been translated from the Dutch by Mrs. C. B. Bodde-Hodgkinson and Pieter Geyl and with an introduction and notes by Geyl. 

Bontekoe's East Indian Voyage was one of the most popular of the numerous adventure books in which the Dutch seventeenth century public delighted and was first published in 1646.  

With ten plates and eight pages of publisher adverts to the rear. 
Collated, complete.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. There is the remnants of a sticker to the rear pastedown. Externally, smart with some fading to the spine and some light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages.

Very Good

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