Author: [PIÉLAT, Barthélemy].
Title: La vie et les actions memorable du Sr. Michel de Ruyter, Duc, Chelalier & Lt. General des Provinces Unies.Amsterdam, Henry & Theodore Boom, 1677. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece, and full-page engraved portrait of Michiel de Ruyter; woodcut printer’s device on both title-pages. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine.
Description: [24], 480; 256, [14] pp.Rare first edition of this first monograph on the great and most famous Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruiter (1607-1676) who fought, in the service of the Dutch Republic, the English and French and scored several major victories against them, the best known probably being the Raid on the Medway. This monograph was based on the first biography of De Ruyter by Lambertus van den Bosch, which he included in his Leeven en daden der doorluchtighste zeehelden (Amsterdam 1676). It also contains the account of De Ruiter's expedition to the West Indies. The book by Piélat was published after De Ruiter was given an elaborate state funeral in 1676, but it was issued before the famous biography of Gerard Brandt (1687). Barthélemy Piélat (1607-1681) studied theology in Geneva and became minster in London before he moved to the Netherlands, where he also published a new method to learn French.Very good copy with the armorial bookplates of Sr.Josa Van Neck and Hintlesham on paste-down.l Not in Cat. NHSM; European Americana, IV, p. 32.

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