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The Netherland-historian : containing a true and exact relation of what hath passed in the late warrs between the King of Great Britain, and the French King with their allyes, against the States Generall of the United Provinces, from the beginning thereof anno. 1671 to the conclusion of peace between His aforesaid Majesty of Britain, and the said States, with the continuation of what hath since happened between France and his allyes, against the said States, and their confœderates, to the end of the year 1674 : illustrated with above 60 sculptures, being the exact delineations of the most principall fortifications in those provinces, and the pourtraictures of severall mighty princes and eminent officers

Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708, Swart, Steven, fl. 1663-1683 · 1675 · Amsterdam : Printed by Stephen Swart ... · 61 pictures

The Netherland-historian is a 1675 Amsterdam history of the Dutch War of 1672-1678, written and illustrated by Romeyn de Hooghe with Steven Swart as printer, and aimed at readers of the Dutch Republic and its allies. Its pictures are plan-view engraved maps of fortified towns, with star-shaped bastions, moats and riverbanks labelled in Dutch, which a designer could use for diagrams of fortress geometry and early cartography.

Dutch War, 1672-1678

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