Melton, E. Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardige zee- en land-reizen; door Egypten, West-Indien, Perzien, Turkyen, Oost-Indien, en d'aangrenzende Gewesten (...)

Melton, E. Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardige zee- en land-reizen; door Egypten, West-Indien, Perzien, Turkyen, Oost-Indien, en d'aangrenzende Gewesten (...). Aangevangen in den jaare 1660 en geëindigd in den jaare 1677. Amst., J. Verjager, 1702, 2nd ed., (6),495,(1 blank),(6)p., engr. frontisp. and 19 (fold.) plates by J. LUIKEN and J. HARREWYN, contemp. calf w. richly gilt spine and red mor. letterpiece, sm. 4to. - Partly sl. waterstained in outer blank margin; most fold. plates sl. dam. along edges, restored w. paper; contemp. annot. on title-p. Spine professionally restored; covers sl. rubbed. = Sabin 47472; Asher 16; Tiele 738; Muller, America 960; Cat. NHSM p.118; Klaversma/ Hannema 1066; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 42, all listing the first edition 1681. The book claims to be translated from the papers of an English nobleman, but according to Tiele it was composed by G. van Broekhuizen, a professional translator. Muller, on the other hand, was convinced that "Melton was at New-York in 1668, in the height of the quarrel between England and Holland on the possession of the country, so that he uses the names New York and New Amsterdam indiscriminately".