Casparis Barlaei Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi gestarum : sub praefectura illustrissimi comitis I. Mauritii Nassaviae &c. comitis, historia
Casparis Barlaei's 1660 Latin history of Dutch activity in Brazil under Johan Maurits of Nassau, printed at Kleve by Tobias Silberling and written by Caspar van Baerle with Willem Piso. The engraved plates are seventeenth-century views of Brazilian coastlines, towns and harbours, seen from distant high ground or from the sea, with ships and small boats in the foreground. A designer could draw on their topographic perspective, crisp line hatching, and the decorative cartouches of hanging cloth and winged figures holding inscribed tablets.
