[Maritime history] Brandt, G. Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter
(...). Amst., for Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom, van Someren en Goethals, 1687. 1st ed. (12),1063,(23) p. Engr. fontisp., title-p. engr., a portrait of De Ruiter and 8 (double-p./ fold.) finely engr. plates (mainly of sea battles by Stoopendael). Contemp. calf (somewhat worn), gilt title and fleurons on ribbed spine. Folio.
Former owners' signatures upper flyleaf. Some pages browned, otherwise a fine copy. First edition of the main source on the greatest Dutch admiral of the seventeenth century, Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676).