La vie et les actions memorables du Sr. Michel de Ruyter, duc, chevalier, & lieutenant amiral general des Provinces Unies
Contributors: Brandt, Geeraert, 1626-1685
Publisher: Chez Antoine Maurry, ruë S. Lo, prés le Palais
Published: 1678
Place of publication: Sur l'Imprimé à Amsterdam. A Rouen
Language: fre
Subjects: United Provinces of the Netherlands. Zeemacht; United Provinces of the Netherlands; Officers; Biography; Description and travel
Notes: First printed Amsterdam, 1677.

Erroneously attributed to Geeraert Brandt.

Title page to part 2 reads: La vie et les actions memorables du Sr. Michel A. de Ruyter, duc, chevalier, & lieutenant amiral general des Provinces Unies. Second partie, contenant ce qu'il a fait depuis l'an 1672. jusques à sa Mort, and has identical imprint as that of part one.

Contains an account of Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter's expedition to the West Indies.

Pagination: pt. 1 1: [16], 362, [2] p.; pt. 2: 192, [16] p.

Signatures: pt. 1: *⁸ (*1, *2 versos blank) A-P¹² (Lv missigned Av) Q² (Q2 blank); pt. 2: A-H¹² (A1 verso blank) I⁶ K² (K2 blank)

Includes index.

Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes a frontispiece portrait of Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter which is counted as leaf *1 in part one.

European Americana 678/108.

John Carter Brown Library copy, bound in contemporary full calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: unnamed armorial bookplate on front pastedown.