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Right hand portion of a view of Mauritsstad and Recife

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Right hand portion of a view of Mauritsstad and Recife

Post, Frans / Blaeu sr., Joan

Right hand portion of a view of Mauritsstad and Recife.

Bottom right: no. 35. 2.

Key: 1. Reciffa Olindae Pernambuccensis. / 2. Curia Supremi Senatus. / 3. Novae librae Domus. / 4. Suggestus lapideus. / 5. Naves intra Reciffam lapideam. / 6. Castrum aquaticum. / 7. Reciffa lapidea. / 8. Castrum terrestre S. Georgij. / 9. Castrum Brunonis. / 10. Domina Brunonis. / 11. Olinda civitas ?? long??. / 12. Mare.

The left hand portion of this print is held in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, inv. nr. 1043 B 14, after p. 146 no. 35-1

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Sources and literature

Barlaeus, Caspar, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia: et alibi nuper gestarum, sub præfectura illustrissimi comitis I. Mavritii [...] historia (1647)