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Abel Janzsoon Tasman's Journal of his Discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642, with documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644. by TASMAN, Abel Janszoon. / J.E. Heeres (editor & translator) - 1965

by TASMAN, Abel Janszoon. / J.E. Heeres (editor & translator)

Abel Janzsoon Tasman's Journal of his Discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642, with documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644. by TASMAN, Abel Janszoon. / J.E. Heeres (editor & translator) - 1965

Abel Janzsoon Tasman's Journal of his Discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642, with documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644.

by TASMAN, Abel Janszoon. / J.E. Heeres (editor & translator)

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  • Hardcover
Los Angeles: N. A. Kovach. 1965. Being photo-lithographic facsimiles of the original manuscript in the Colonial Archive at the Hague, with an English translation and facsimiles of original maps, to which are added, Life and Labours of Abel Janszoon Tasman, by J.E. Heeres... and Observations made with the Compass on Tasman's Voyage, by Dr W. van Bemmelen... Facsimile of Ferguson 16722 (Amsterdam, 1898). 225 copies, of which 200 were for sale. Folio. [x], [196] (facsimile of journal), [2], 60 (journal translation), 164 (Heeres' life of Tasman, Appendices), [2], 22 (Bemmelen), errata slip; 5 folding charts in end pocket, also 53pp of maps and illustrations. Original blue buckram with cream pictorial dustwrapper (quite worn along the edges and with much silverfishing, although it is complete and very little of the illustration or lettering is affected, and now in protective sleeve). The book is in very good+ clean condition, the wrapper good only. .
  • Bookseller Astrolabe Booksellers AU (AU)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher N. A. Kovach
  • Place of Publication Los Angeles
  • Date Published 1965
  • Keywords dutch, exploration, maritime, tasmania, Van Diemen's Land