Item #44394 [Copper-Engraved Map] Povo. Villa D Olinda D Pernambuco [Prise de la forte Ville Olinda, située au Brasil en la capitanie de Parnamboucq]. Brazil, Isaac Commelin.

[Copper-Engraved Map] Povo. Villa D Olinda D Pernambuco [Prise de la forte Ville Olinda, située au Brasil en la capitanie de Parnamboucq].

[Amsterdam]: [Jodocus Janssonius], [ca. 1652]. 1 sheet. Copper engraved map. 11.75 x 13.5 inches. Very good, edges reinforced on verso, light soiling, mostly to margins, minor foxing, dampstained along bottom edge, image clean. Item #44394

Double-page copper engraved plate from "Fredrick Hendrick Van Nassauw Prince Van Orangien Zyn Leven En Bedryf." (page 128). Labeled "Fig. 10, Fol. 100" in top left corner. The two views depict the 1630 attack on the Portuguese city of Olinda in Brazil, by the Dutch.

When Spanish Crown and the Kingdom of Portugal formed a dynastic union (1580-1640), uniting the entire Iberian peninsula, as well as their colonies, the Dutch saw their opportunity to take advangage of Portuguese weakness by attacking their colonies, occupying large sections of Brazil including the whole Brazilian northeast, and in 1630 capturing Recife and Olinda in the captaincy of Pernambuco, the largest and richest sugar-producing area in the world.

Price: $275.00

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