Their ship and cargo decommissioned, themselves imprisoned by the Dutch authorities in Bantam for breaching the monopoly of the VOC on the passage of Magellan’s Strait, they were to be brought to justice in Holland. Schouten and le Maire sailed with Spilbergen on December 14, 1616. Le Maire died on the way back, December 30, 1616. Schouten arrived in Holland on July 1, 1617 on the ship de Zeeland and, once back home, claimed the discoveries in South America and the Pacific for himself in a book published in 1618 . Le Maires log book only became known in the Netherlands in 1619, included in Spilbergen’s Oost en West Indische Spiegel of 1619. Le Maire’s full story was first published in 1621 in le Maires own book: Spieghel der Australische Navigatie, Amsterdam 1621. It is these texts, maps and plates we examine here now and offer for sale.   Following the trail and timeline we mention (1) and (2) and (3) :

1. Schouten, Willem

Diarium vel Descriptio… itineris factia... in Latin 1662