FRICK Christoph, HESSE Elias, SCHWEITZER Christoph - Drie seer Aanmerkelijke Reysen Na en door veelerley Gewesten in Oost-Indien; Gedaen door Christophorus Frikius, Chirurgyn: Elias Hesse, Bergh-Schryver: Christophorus Schweitzer, Boekhouder, Yeder bysonder, van 't Jaer 1675. tot 1686. Bevattende, nevens een groot getal sonderlinge Gevallen, nauwkeurige Waerneemingen, en veele noyt beschrevene Gedenckwaerigheden [...]. Vertaeld door S[imon] de Vries. Met Kopere Figueren. Den tweeden Druck, vermeerdert en verbetert. Amsterdam 1705. by Engelbertus Solmans. 4, pp. [6], 435, [29], plate 6, frontispiece in copperplate. pperg. period binding.
Abrasions to covers, parchment on spine slightly creased, trace of dampness in corner of some pages, minor stains. One plate missing. Second, expanded edition of a Dutch translation of the works of three German members of the East India Company. The first of the three served in the Company as a surgeon from 1680 to 1685, and his account of his journey to India, written in German, was published in 1692, in which he devoted much space to the occupation of Bantam in Java by Dutch troops in 1682. The second traveler described Sumatra and its mines, Java, Batavia (present-day Jakarta) and the Malabar Coast in India in a book published in 1687. Schweitzer's travelogue, first published in 1688, included his impressions of Java and especially Ceylon, where he stayed for five years. The book opens with a striking frontispiece depicting the Maharaja on an elephant surrounded by the court. Of the remaining engravings, two each were engraved by Casper Luyken and Jan van Vianen.
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