Brandt, G. Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter

(...). Amst., for Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom, van Someren en Goethals, 1687, 1st ed., (10),1063,(23) p., w. engr. fontisp., a portrait of De Ruiter and 8 (double-p./ fold.) finely engr. plates (mainly sea-battles by . Stoopendael) and EXTRA several loosely inserted engr. portraits fom Wagenaar, contemp. blindst. vellum, ribbed spine w. manuscript title, folio.

Several quires/ lvs. browned, joints split. In all, a good and attractive copy. Cat. NHSM p. 844. First edition of the main source on the greatest Dutch admiral of his time, Michiel de Ruyter (1607-76). *Proceeds go the Red Cross.