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Brasilsche gelt-sack, waer in dat klaerlijck vertoont wort, waer dat de participanten van de West-Indische Compagnie haer geldt ghebleven is

1647 · Gedruckt in Brasilien op't Reciff in de Bree-Bijl. [i.e. Amsterdam?] : [s.n.] · 2 pictures

A 1647 Dutch pamphlet, the Brasilsche gelt-sack, printed in Brazil at Recife or Amsterdam, concerning investors of the West-Indische Compagnie and where their money was lost. The pictures are a printed title block in blackletter type and a woodcut ornament of foliage scrolls around a central mask-like figure with a crest, suggesting a dense, old-fashioned decorative vocabulary for printed headers and page ornaments.

West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands)

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