't Neemen van de suyker prysen in de Bay de Todo los Santos.

COMMELIN, Isaac

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Lot description

[Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1651]

Copper engr., 28 x 37,2 cm, hand-coloured (some foxing).

Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.

From the 1651 "Wilhelm en Maurits van Nassau, princen van Orangien [...]", this plate depicts the Dutch fleet, under command of Piet Hein, capturing a fort at the Bay of All Saints (large inset plan) in 1627. Foliated n. 23, verso blank.
Ref. Muller 1561.
Under same passe-partout: Brasilise suykerwerken. [Utrecht, Ribbius bookseller, 1682]. Copper engr., 19,4 x 29,7 cm (sl. toned). Hinged at upper edge. From the first vol. (normally bound between pp. 6 and 7) of "Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische verwonderens-waerdige dingen" of Simon de Vries. Verso blank.