The East and West Indian Mirror —— Being an Account of Joris Van Speilbergen's Voyage Round the World (1614-1617), And the Australian Navigations of Jacob Le Maire

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ISBN: 9781331895336 出版年：2016 页码：493 J A J De Villiers Forgotten Books

It is of some importance to have established this, for neither the Latin edition, published at Leiden in 1619, nor the above-mentioned French edition of 1621 has the dedication to the states-general, signed by Joris von Speilbergenz — the former having in its stead a dedication by Geelkercken to Petrus Graef,' whilst the latter commences with the Preface to the Reader. This omission of Speilbergen's own dedication from two versions which would naturally be more generally consulted by posterity than one in Dutch was to be deplored, for a Sight of that document — so very emphatic in its language as to authorship — would have precluded the possibility of the error above alluded to taking root.