Eigentliche vnd warhafftige Beschreibung / der wunderbaerlichen Schiffarth (der Hollaender
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Engraved title page depicts the landscape of the Rotterdam harbor with four ships in the water. and Under each ship is different wording: de cendracht; Mauritius Admirael; Hendrick Fredrick vice-admirael; de hope (left to right).
Alternative Title:
Roterodamum and Roterodamvm
Description:
Indeciphered autograph with date. and Title page has two small holes; one after "wiederumb", making the "b" unrecognizable; the other on a blank section of the right side of the page above the autograph.
Subject (Geographic):
Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Collection Created:
Gedruckt zu Amsterdam / Durch Cornelium Nicolaum / Anno 1602
Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, oder, Abriss der merkwurdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten
Image Count:
1
Description:
Facing p. 144.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Relations --United States, New York (N.Y.) --History --Revolution, 1775-1783 --British forces, United States --History --Revolution, 1775-1783 --Peace, and United States --Relations --Great Britain
"The slight analysis drawn up as an accompaniment to Retsch's [!] Outlines being out of print, the publishers felt desirous to supply its place with a more careful abstract ..., "With this view the most striking passages and scenes ... have been translated into blank verse, and connected by a detailed description in prose.", Errata on p. [2] at end., Published also on large paper with the plates engraved by Moses from Retzch's Outlines., Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See the 2007 edition edited by Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick., and With half-title.
Publisher:
Boosey and Sons : and Rodwell & Martin,
Subject (Name):
Boosey and Sons, publishers., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, translator., Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870, engraver., Retzsch, Moritz, 1779-1857, illustrator., and Rodwell and Martin (Firm), publishers.