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BOSCH, Lambert van den

Leeven en daaden der doorluchtigste zeehelden, beginnende met de tocht na Damiaten, voorgevallen in de jare 1217 en eindigende met den beroemden Admirael de Ruyter.
Amsterdam
Jan ten Hoorn & J. Bouman
1683
€800 - €1.200

4to, [14], 784, [7] p, engraved allegorical front. by R. de Hooghe, 9 portraits (5 by J. Luycken) and 18 engraved plates (7 folding, incl. 1 map). Contemp. calf, spine richly gilt (extr. of spine skillfully rep.)

"Second edition (first 1676), ex-libris Bob Luza. L. Van den Bosch (1610-1698) rector of the Latin school at Dordrecht, accounts here of all the principal Dutch naval achievements - so that it may be called a general Naval History of the Netherlands. The importance of this work for America is considerable (Muller, America p. 18). A fine large paper copy. Cat. NHSM II, p 843; Sabin 6440; Van Eeghen & Van der Kellen 67"

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