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BARLAEUS, CASPAR. 1584-1648. Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum.... Amsterdam Joannis Blaeu, 1647. image 1
BARLAEUS, CASPAR. 1584-1648. Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum.... Amsterdam Joannis Blaeu, 1647. image 2
BARLAEUS, CASPAR. 1584-1648. Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum.... Amsterdam Joannis Blaeu, 1647. image 3
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BARLAEUS, CASPAR. 1584-1648.
Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum.... Amsterdam: Joannis Blaeu, 1647.

13 December 2022, 11:00 EST
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BARLAEUS, CASPAR. 1584-1648.

Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum.... Amsterdam: Joannis Blaeu, 1647.
Folio (427 x 280 mm). Engraved extra title-page, engraved portrait of Maurice of Nassau, 25 double-page engraved maps and plans, 31 double-page engraved plates. Contemporary vellum, upper cover ruled in blind with blind-stamped floral vignette in center. Light soiling to vellum, paper repair to leaf Vvv1, scattered browning and staining.

FIRST EDITION of this important account of the short-lived Dutch colonial empire in Brazil, considered by Sabin to be a "magnificent work" and a great rarity due to a fire that consumed much of Blaeu's stock. Barlaeus's history was commissioned by Maurits van Nassau, Governor-General of Dutch Brazil from 1637-1644. Most of the views are after Frans Post, the famous painter who accompanied Nassau to Brazil. "One of the most beautiful books on Brazil of this period" and of "inestimable documentary value" (Borba de Moraes). The maps and views were the main European reference source of the Brazilian landscape for 160 years. Alden 647.9; Borba de Moraes, p 78; Sabin 3408.

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