Anthonii Thysii JC. Historia navalis, sive celeberrimorum praeliorum, : quæ mari ab antiquissimis temporibus usque ad pacem Hispanicam Batavi, fœderatiq[ue] Belgæ, utplurimum victores gesserunt, luculenta descriptio

Thys, Anthony, 1603-1665 · 1657 · Lugduni Batavorum, : ex officina Joannis Maire · 1 picture

Anthonius Thysius's Historia navalis, a Latin history of naval battles fought by the Dutch and Belgian federation from ancient times to the Spanish peace, printed at Leiden by Joannes Maire in 1657 for scholars and readers of naval history. The engraved frontispiece shows a sunburst with a Hebrew letter, the motto Pax et Spera, and three allegorical women beside a labouring man with an anchor, wreath, and grain sheaves, a dense emblematic style a designer could borrow for symbolic title pages.

Naval battles · Netherlands -- History, Naval

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