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BARLAEUS, Caspar (1584-1648). Rerum per Octennium in Brasila et alibi nuper gestarum, sub Praefectura Illustrissimi Comitis Mauritii Nassoviae, &c. Comitis nunc Vesaliae Gubernatoris & Equitatus Foederatorum Belgii Ord. sub. Auriaco Doctoris, Historia. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1647.
2o (427 x 284 mm). Large woodcut publisher's device on title, woodcut initials, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Prince Maurice of Nassau by Th. Matham, 56 full-sheet engraved maps (25) and views (31), including 2 double-sheet folding views, 48 of the plates after Frans Jansz Post. (Browned and stained throughout, light chipping and splitting to edges, some plates with short repairs.) Modern cloth.
FIRST EDITION. Barlaeus was one of the preeminent humanists of 17th-century Holland, but "if today his name is constantly recalled it is, above all, by Brazilians and by reason of his classic work on the government of Maurits van Nassau in Pernambuco" (Borba de Moraes). The artist Franz Jansz Post (1612-1680) "was one of the first trained European landscape artists to paint in the New World" (Dictionary of Art 25:325-327). Alden & Landis 647/8; Borba de Moraes 78-79; Rodrigues 344; Sabin 3408 (noting 54 maps and plates only).
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FIRST EDITION. Barlaeus was one of the preeminent humanists of 17th-century Holland, but "if today his name is constantly recalled it is, above all, by Brazilians and by reason of his classic work on the government of Maurits van Nassau in Pernambuco" (Borba de Moraes). The artist Franz Jansz Post (1612-1680) "was one of the first trained European landscape artists to paint in the New World" (Dictionary of Art 25:325-327). Alden & Landis 647/8; Borba de Moraes 78-79; Rodrigues 344; Sabin 3408 (noting 54 maps and plates only).
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