77/2821 Varthema, L. de. De uytnemende en seer wonderlijcke Zee- en Landt-reyse van d'heer Ludowiick di Barthema (...). Gedaen in de Morgen-Landen/ Syrien/ Vruchtbaer- en Woest-Arabien/ Perssen/ Indien/ Egypten/ Ethiopien en andere. Uyt het Italiaens in Hoogh-duyts vertaelt, door H. Megiserium. Dutch transl. F.S. Utr., W. Snellaert, 1655, (6),136,(2)p., engr. frontisp., woodcut printer's mark on title-p., 3 (of 4) engr. plates, contemp. vellum, sm. 4to.

- Lacks 1 plate (Tiele calls for 4 plates) and 2 leaves (F2 and F3); occas. (water)stained/ soiled / foxed (mainly in margins and 1x in margin of image of 1 plate); p.129 misprinted. Vellum soiled and creased; backcover dam.

= Tiele 1128; Cat. NHSM p.255; Cox I, p.202 (listing the ed. London, 1576); Gay 140 (listing the first edition published in Rome, 1510); Henze 385f. "Varthema was a real traveller whose driving purpose was to see the sights. His reports on the social and political conditions of the various lands he visited are reliable as being gathered from personal contact with places and peoples, and are rich in the personal adventures of the author. His account of the overland trade is of great value in that we are made to see it before it had begun to give way to the all-seas route." (Cox). Very rare Dutch edition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.