Reys-togten naar en door Oost-Indien : in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eylanden, bergen, en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is ; naauwkeurig word beshreven ... Hier is nog by gevoegt des autheurs gevaarlyke te rug-reys, in welke naauwkeuriger dan elders, beschreven werd, de harde bejegening onzer Oost-Indi.

Wouter Schouten

Amsterdam: Gerrit Tielenburg en Jan 'Tlam, 1740

[Asia in the European Mind] Quarto, 9 x 7 in.  Bound in quarter leather over marbled boards. Title page printed in black and red. Added additional engraved title from the 1708 edition.   [10], 328, 253, [23] p. Complete with all maps and illustrations called for.  Engraved author portrait, illustrated throughout with fine etchings by C. Decker or J. Kip, including 4 vignettes, 24 full paged illustrations, and 19 large folding plates.   Old, light dampstaining scattered throughout, mostly to the index. 

Updated edition, first published in 1676, of Wouter Schouten's voyage to the Dutch East Indies.  Schouten traveled as a surgeon to the Dutch East Indies in the 1650s-1660s.  "Schouten was an observant traveller who explored inland into the environs of nearly every port-of-call, sometimes by himself or with a small group of comrades. His narrative, full of anecdotes as well as information gleaned about countries he had not visited, became particularly popular with readers in the eighteenth century, when it was republished in no fewer than seven editions." - Howgego S66.  "As a physician, Schouten had a more than ordinary interest in flora and fauna and in hygiene and living conditions" (Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe, v. III, p.955.  Refs: Mendelssohn II, p.279; Landwehr VOC, 284; Tiele 990.