Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti, sive, Transitus ad occasum suprà terras Americanas, in Chinam atq[ue] Iaponem ducturi
Subtitle: recens investigati ab M. Henrico Hudsono Anglo : item, exegesis Regi Hispaniaefacts, super tractu recens detecto, in quintâ orbis parte, cui nomen Avstralis incognita : cum descriptione terrarum Samoiedarum, & Tingoesiorum, in Tartariâ ad ortum freti VVaygats sitarum, nuperq[ue] sceptro Moscovitarum adscitarum
Contributors: Massa, Isaac Abrahamszoon, 1586-1643; Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622; Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de, -1615; Hudson, Henry, -1611
Publisher: Ex officina Hesselij Gerardi
Published: 1613
Place of publication: Amsterodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 48
Notes: First printed account of Hudson's discoveries in the Canadian Arctic, and the first map of Hudson's Bay and adjacent territory.

Edited by H. Gerritsz.

Second Latin ed., 1st issue; 2nd issue of the Latin ed. has appendix of 2 leaves at end. First Latin ed. published: Amsterdam, 1612.

The 4 maps are: Map of northeast Russia; map of Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla; world map in 2 hemispheres; "Tabula nautica" (Hudson's map). The latter exists in two states, with and without the notation designating the prime meridian as the one drawn through the islands of Corvo and Flores. Cf. Dahl, E. "A critical analysis of the northpart of America," in Cartographica, v. 17, no. 1, pp. 11-12.

The 4 ill. are: Full-rigged ship on t.p. verso (woodcut); Samoid in sleigh drawn by reindeer on C1 verso (woodcut); walrus and pup on folding plate following F2 (engraving); whale on F4 recto (woodcut).

Signatures: A-F⁴ (E4 blank).

Includes bibliographical references (Alden, J.E. European Americana, no. 613/63; Sabin 33491; Cf. JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, v. 2, pages 95-96 (2nd ed., 2nd issue)).