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CASPAR BARLAEUS (1584-1648)
Rerum per octennium in Brasilia. Cleves: Tobias Silberling, 1660. 8° (15.5 x 9.5cm). Engraved addditional title, portrait of Prince Johan Maurits van Nassau, plate of his arms, 5 engraved folding views after Frans Post, 3 engraved folding maps. (Without the plate of the eclipse, small hole in image area of the first view facing p.65, tear to lower margin of S6, occasional browning.) Old vellum, yapp fore-edges (somewhat soiled). Provenance: Hen. W. Diepenbrock (inscription dated 1668).
The so-called "little Barleu". Caspar van Baerle, or Barlaeus, was commissioned by Prince Johan Maurits van Nassau (1604-1679) to record his tenure (1637-1644) as captain general of the Dutch East India Company's possessions in Brazil. The result was a fine work, in a folio format published by Blaeu in 1647, with 31 plates and 25 maps. The present work is in effect a reduced second edition with the plates after Post's originals. Borba de Moraes p.79; Sabin 3409.
Rerum per octennium in Brasilia. Cleves: Tobias Silberling, 1660. 8° (15.5 x 9.5cm). Engraved addditional title, portrait of Prince Johan Maurits van Nassau, plate of his arms, 5 engraved folding views after Frans Post, 3 engraved folding maps. (Without the plate of the eclipse, small hole in image area of the first view facing p.65, tear to lower margin of S6, occasional browning.) Old vellum, yapp fore-edges (somewhat soiled). Provenance: Hen. W. Diepenbrock (inscription dated 1668).
The so-called "little Barleu". Caspar van Baerle, or Barlaeus, was commissioned by Prince Johan Maurits van Nassau (1604-1679) to record his tenure (1637-1644) as captain general of the Dutch East India Company's possessions in Brazil. The result was a fine work, in a folio format published by Blaeu in 1647, with 31 plates and 25 maps. The present work is in effect a reduced second edition with the plates after Post's originals. Borba de Moraes p.79; Sabin 3409.