Oostende West-Indische Spiegel

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Oostende West-Indische Spiegel

Title page of the second last navigation in the years 1614,15,16,17 and 1618 in the West Indies in which is shown how George of Speilbergen sailed with some battalions on land and sea through the Magellanic Ocean around the world. The title page was also illustrated in the 1st part 10th book by Johann Theodor de Bry (1618). Joris van Spilbergen (Antwerp 1568 - Bergen op Zoom 1620) was commissioned in 1614 to lead an expedition to the East Indies via the Strait of Magellan for the East India Company (VOC) to reassert Dutch claims to access the Pacific from the east. In it, Le Maire reports on the proof that Tierra del Fuego is an island and the discovery of Le Maire's Strait, an alternative route to the Pacific that is still called that today. The Mirror is an extremely important book for the history of Dutch navigation."

c. 1619

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