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Practiicke van den Spaenschen aes-sack: aen-gevvesen op de veroveringe, en victorie van den loffelijcken, voorsienighen, manlijck-hertighen Heer Generael Pieter Pietersz. Heyn. : Met by-voeginghe van noodighe poëtische 't samen-spraecke; ende aerdige rijm-vyeren, en vvellekomsten. : Mitsgaders eenighe treur-versen op het droevich ongheluck des Coninckl: M: van Bohemen

unknown · 1629 · In 's Gravenhage, : gedruckt in't jaer ons heeren · 2 pictures

A 1629 Dutch pamphlet printed in The Hague celebrating Piet Heyn's capture of the Spanish silver fleet at Matanzas Bay, with rhyming verses and mourning poems, held by the John Carter Brown Library. Its pictures are small crisp black-and-white engravings: one shows a crowd of figures in a bay scene with a central commander, and the other a circular seal with a robed figure and Hebrew-like lettering, offering designers compact, intricate figure groupings and emblematic ornament.

Heyn, Piet, 1577-1629 · Matanzas Bay (Cuba)

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