Ongelukkige schipbreuk en yslyke reystogt, van etlyke Engelschen, in den jaare 1696 van Jamaika in West-Indien, na Pensylvania : t' scheep gegaan, en in de golf van Florida gestrand, alwaar zy onder
Author: Jonathan Dickinson (1663–1722)
Year: 1706
Publisher: Pieter van der Aa, boekverkooper
Place: Te Leyden
Description:
100+[vii] pages with folding map and three folding plates. Small octavo (7" x 4 1/2") bound in quarter black paper over plain paper wrappers. Translated from the English by Willem Sewel. (National Library of Jamaica. First published in 1699.
Dickinson wrote a journal of the ordeal, which was published by the Society of Friends in 1699 as
God's Protecting Providence Man's Surest Help and Defence in the times of the greatest difficulty and most Imminent danger Evidenced in the Remarkable Deliverance of divers Persons, from the devouring Waves of the Sea, amongst which they Suffered Shipwrack. And also from the more cruelly devouring jawes of the inhumane Canibals of Florida. Faithfully related by one of the persons concerned therein, Jonathan Dickenson.
This book was reprinted sixteen times in English, and three times each in Dutch and German translations, between 1700 and 1869. Today it is more commonly known as Jonathan Dickinson's Journal. Dickinson's Journal has been described by the Cambridge History of English and American Literature as, "in many respects the best of all the captivity tracts"
The 1706 accompanying map of the east coast of America was prepared by Pieter van der Aa. The map was prepared to illustrate the Dutch edition of the voyages. Oriented from East to West. the map covers the eastern part of America from Lake Erie south to Jamaica.
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733) was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed pirated editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He also printed many maps that were often out of print, which he reissued.
Condition:
Tear to quarter wrapper, some toning and stains to pages else good to very good.
