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Journael ende verhael van alle het gene dat ghesien ende voor-ghevallen is op de reyse gedaen door Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeven
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Journael ende verhael van alle het gene dat ghesien ende voor-ghevallen is op de reyse gedaen door Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeven

Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff (Verhoeven) · Amsterdam · Isaac Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, 1646 (Joannes Janssonius) · 1646

Dutch account of Admiral Verhoeff's 1607 VOC voyage to the East Indies, the Moluccas and Japan, extracted from Commelin

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Key Properties

Format: Oblong 8vo

Binding: Modern boards

Illustration: One plate depicting the fortress on Banda

Collation: 214 pp., text in two columns

Language: Dutch

Source: Extracted from Commelin's collection of voyages

Collation & Technical Description

Oblong 8vo. 214 pp., the text set in two columns. With one plate depicting the fortress on Banda. Bound in modern boards.

Condition

Age-browned throughout. Lacking pages 165-166, here supplied in photocopy. Bound in modern boards.

References & Bibliography

Landwehr, VOC, 250. Howgego, pp. 1065-1066. Lach and Van Kley, III, pp. 471-472.

Description

This is the separately issued Dutch account of the voyage commanded by Admiral Pieter Willemszoon Verhoeff, extracted from Isaac Commelin's celebrated collection of voyages. Verhoeff (circa 1573-1609) led one of the last expeditions of the first phase of Dutch expansion in the East Indies.

His instructions were to destroy as much Iberian shipping as possible and to drive the Spanish and Portuguese out of the Moluccas (Howgego, pp. 1065-1066). He died in 1609 during an expedition to the Banda Islands, where he and many of his crew were ambushed and killed by local inhabitants while negotiating on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

The account is a composite work. It opens with the journal of the chief merchant Johan de Moelre, continued after his death by the fleet's treasurer Jacques Le Febure. There follow extracts from the journal of Reynier Dirckszoon, pilot aboard one of the ships that sailed to Japan, and the journals of Jacob Specx and Pieter Segerszoon, also on Japan.

These are followed by Samuel Bloemaert's report on trade and negotiations on Borneo, Apollonius Schotte's accounts of the Moluccas, and Gillis Seys's report of 1627 on Amboina. Together these materials form a rich source on the expansion of Dutch power in the Moluccas, the negotiations with local rulers, the war with the Spanish, the details of trade, and the daily life of the Dutch stationed there.

This account of Verhoeff's voyage was never separately reprinted during the seventeenth century (Lach and Van Kley, III, pp. 471-472).