Description: , Naar de Latijnsche uitgave van 1647 voor het eerst in het Nederlandsch bewerkt door S.P. L’Honoré Naber [..]. ’s-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1923, XVI,442,[1] pp. With engraved frontisp.-portrait (of John Maurice of Nassau) after Th. Matham, engraved title & 67 (fold.) (double-p.) maps/ views/ plates. Folio (ca. 46 x 29 cm.), early 20th-cent. cloth, uncut. ? Borba de Moraes I, p. 66. Cf. Tiele 72 (listing the first Latin edition publ. in 1647). Printed on handmade paper in 160 Arabic numb. copies. Signed (in the colophon) by the publisher Wouter Nijhoff (1866-1947). Rare first (& only) Dutch translation by the Dutch maritime historian Samuel Pierre L’Honoré Naber (1865-1936) of a sumptuous work on the history of Brazil under the reign of John Maurice of Nassau (1604-1679) by the Dutch humanist Caspar Barlaeus (1584-1648) illustrated with plates (in facsimile) published in the first Latin edition (Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1647). “[..] what greatly enhances this edition is the publication in it of several new documents, and the complete reproduction of the nine leaves of the great map of Dutch Brazil from the surveys of Marcgraf during his stay in Brazil [..]” (cited from Borba de Moraes). ? A few minor imperfections (binding sl. soiled, occ. sl. foxed/ browned), but nevertheless in good condition.