Eigentliche vorbildung der Spannischen Flott welche under dem comando Hern. Graven Johan von Nassawe etc. von Anttorff nacher Wilmstat gefahren, und von dem Holländischen Kriegschiffen under dem comando Hern Heinrich Princes von Oragnien etc. geschlagen worden Ao. 1631 den 13. Sept
Summary
Engraved print shows birds-eye view map of the area between Antwerp, Bergen op Zoom, Hoogstraten and Willemstad in Belgium and the Netherlands during the 1631 Battle of the Slaak in the Netherlands. Also shown is the Scheldt river around the island ot Tholen and ships locked in the Volkerak tidal river. The Dutch victory prevented the Spanish from dividing the Dutch provinces.
Title from inset caption at top of print.
German descriptive text in three columns below print.
Paas, J.R. German political broadsheet, 1600-1700 Vol. 5, P-1383
Reference copy in LOT 4601, no. 228.
Illustration in: Hauslab Album, plate 228.
Original album; Purchase; 1950.
Formerly: PR13 CN1950:R01. Originals were housed in blind-tooled morocco album 11 x 17 in. Original binding in P&P Suppl. Archives.
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