Beschreibung, von Eroberung der span[n]ischen Silber Flotta, wie solche, von dem General Peter Peters Heyn. In Noua Hispania, in der Insul Cuba im Baia Matanckha, ist erobert worden Anno 1628
Publisher: bey Nicolao Jans Fischer, wohnend in der Kälberstrassen zum Fischer.
Published: 1628
Place of publication: Ambsterdam
Language: ger
Subjects: Spanish Silver fleet; Naval History; West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands)
Notes: Presumably a translation from the Dutch, either from a printed or handwritten report.

Broadside, with blank verso. Upper third of sheet with engraved illustration (18 x 39 cm.), consisting of the position of the Dutch and Spanish fleets; two medallion portraits, of Piet Heyn and Hendrik Cornelis Loncq; and, in the bottom left corner, a map of Cuba. Central and lower third of sheet with text, a narrative of the expedition and Dutch victory on 8 Sept. 1628 (in three wide columns) and a catalog of the prizes seized from the Spanish ships and turned over to the Dutch West India Company (in three narrow columns, the last five lines in one wide column)

Second impression of the text, and fourth version of the engraved illustration; for details and variants see Muller.

Another edition of the text, in pamphlet form, published under title: Aussführlicher Bericht, wie es mit der Silber Flotta hergangen. [Germany, 1628?]

Cf. Muller, F.  Amer. 3: 1544-1545, 1547.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 2:216.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 628/56.

Muller, F.  Amer. 3:1546.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 114574.