Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier
Subtitle: waer in wijtloopigh wert verhandelt de wijze van scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen: scheeps-oeffeningen, strijden, tucht, straffe, wetten, en gewoonten. Beneffens evenmatige grootheden van schepen onses tijts, ontleet in alle hare deelen: verschil van bouwen tusschen uitheemschen en onzen landaert, Indisch vaertuygh: galey-bouw: hedendaegsche scheeps-plichten: verrijckt met een reex verklaerde zee-mans spreeck-woorden en benamingen. Doorgaens mit vele kopere platen
By: Beschreven door Nicolaes Witsen
Contributors: Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708; Fogel, Martin
Publisher: By Casparus Commelijn; Broer en Jan Appelaer, boeck-verkoopers
Published: 1671
Place of publication: t'Amsterdam
Language: dut
Number of pages: 516
Subjects: Naval art and science; Shipbuilding
Other titles: Scheeps bouw en bestier.
Notes: Added engraved title page, by Romeyn de Hooghe, reads: Scheeps bovw en bestier door N. Witsen.

Another edition issued in the same year was printed by Christoffel Cunradus in Amsterdam.

Includes an alphabetical list of shipbuilding terms on p. 481-516, 2nd count.

Includes a discussion of shipbuilding in the Tierra del Fuego and Virginia.

Plate numbered XCI depicts Indians making a dugout canoe.

Signatures: *⁻**⁴ (*1 verso blank) A-3S⁴ (2F2 missigned 2E2) 3T² ²A-²E⁴ ²F²

Errata: p. 40, 3rd count.

Includes index on p. [1-4], 4th count.

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Title page printed in red and black; engraved vignette of a ship on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Plates numbered I-CIX, drawn by the author, follow p. [4], 4th count; these are followed by plates lettered A-E which are unsigned; plates numbered or lettered XCI, XCIV, XCIX, CI, CII, CIII, CVI, and B are of a smaller size and are cut out and mounted on paper.

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths Library of Economic Literature, 1970.1.

European Americana, 671/259.

Purchase; 2017; 18-192.

Text primarily in Dutch with some passages in Greek and Latin.

Folio. Contemporary mottled calf. Engraved title page and 114 plates. [16], 516, 40, [4] pp.