Casparis Barlæi, rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum, sub præfectura illustrissimi Comitis I. Mauritii, Nassoviæ, &c. comitis, nunc Vesaliæ gubernatoris & equitatus fderatorum Belgii ordd. sub Auriaco ductoris, historia
Barlaeus's 1647 Latin history of Dutch rule in Brazil under Count Johan Maurits of Nassau, printed in Amsterdam by Joan Blaeu and held by the John Carter Brown Library, written for scholars and officials. The pictures are engraved military and landscape plans: fortified towns, tented camps and rivers drawn in fine hatched line with lettered keys and scale bars.




















































