1630 BELGIUM ELZEVIR PUBL antique VELLUM United allies or Gelriae Holland Zeland

DE LAET, Johannes

Belgii confoederati Respublica: seu Gelriae, Holland, Zeland

United Democratic allies, or Gelrae, Holland, Zeland

Leiden, Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1630

Size 2 1/4 by 4 1/4"

[8] + 359 + [7] pp.

Engraved title. 

Vellum bound.

Very good condition. 

Some spots on the cover, missing ties.



Modern heraldic ex-libris Alain Van Raemdonck on front free endpaper.

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Joannes or Johannes De Laet (Latinized as Ioannes Latius) (1581 - 1649) was a Dutch geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company. 

Philip Burden called his History of the New World, "...arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century" 

and "...one of the foundation maps of Canada". 

De Laet was the first to print maps with the names Manhattan, New Amsterdam (now New York City) and Massachusetts.

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