ABEL JANSZOON TASMAN'S JOURNAL of His Discovery of Van Diemens Land and New Zealand in 1642, with Documents Relating to His Exploration of Australia in 1644; Being Photo-Lithographic Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript in the Colonial Archives at The Hague with an English Translation and Facsimiles of Original Maps to which are added Life and Labours of Abel Janszoon Tasman by J.E. Heeres, LL. D., Professor at the Dutch Colonial Institute Delft, and Observations made with the Compass on Tasman's Voyage by Dr. W. van Bemmelen, Assistant-Director of the Royal Meteorological Institute Utrecht
Los Angeles: N.A. Kovach, 1965. Hardcover. Edition limited to 225 copies of which 200 copies are for sale. "Tasman sailed in command of an exploratory voyage 'for the discovery of the unknown Southland...,' commissioned by..... More