Ruyter – Blok, P(etrus). J(ohannes). Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter. With great vignettes, numerous initials as well as 100 illustrations within the text and on 54 (8 double full-page, 3 small, 2 paginated with) plates. ’s-Gravenhage, Martijnus Nijhoff, 1928. Large 4to. XX, 454 pp. Orig. cloth with detailed maritime gilt tooling and marbled fly-leaves. Yellow head edge. Two sides uncut.

Title in red + black. – Back paled, particularly the backcover quite minimally rubbed. Frontispiece + title largely browned from former inlay, but, as each comprising the complete picture and type area resp., not essentially impairing these. – Two sides with marvelously wide margins.

Especially beautiful the gilt three-masted twodekker on the frontcover, further great stern light and anchor arms at the back, the personal arms formed by cross, horseman, threemaster, and canon with the device PUGNANDO on the backcover, and the knotted rope-lining.

(Vlissingen 1607 – Syracuse 1676) – in Dutch – , on heavy laid paper, with nearly the whole contemporary illustration materials as there are portraits, charts, battles, views, documents, coats of arms, seals, etc. – Subdivided into 16 chapters, the three Anglo-Dutch wars form one crucial point, but no less detailed are the other stations of this great life, together showing the international standing of this small country in its greatest century when naval power, economy, and arts formed a perfect triad. – 10paged detailed index.
Offer no. 28,810 / EUR  198. (c. US$ 298.) + shipping