Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrant. Aniyah So’arah ["a stormy boat", translation in Hebrew and Yiddish of Bontekoe's stormy voyage to the East Indies in 1619]

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrant. Aniyah So’arah ["a stormy boat", translation in Hebrew and Yiddish of Bontekoe's stormy voyage to the East Indies in 1619]

FIRST HEBREW AND YIDDISH EDITION. ff. 30 (of 32 lacking ff. 2-3). Worn and stained, crude repair to title-page. Later boards. 8vo

Zolkiew: Modechai Rabinstein 1802

Est: $500 - $700

An account of a harrowing voyage to the East Indies in 1619. First published in Dutch in 1645 and details the "wonders of the Lord." See Mehlman (no. 1299) who suggests his copy is a unicum. Clearly not only is that obviously not the case, but unlike the Mehlman copy, the present copy offered here, includes the title-page.