[Maritime history] Het leeven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruyter,

(...) beschreeven door Gerard Brandt. Amsterdam, Van Waasberge, Boom en Goethals, 1701 [frontispiece: "Uyt de Drukkerye van P. en J. Blaeu, Voor de Compagnie, MDCXCIX"], (8),1065,(23) p., with engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 7 double-page engravings of sea battles (1x folding) and 1 full-page engraving contemporary blindstamped vellum, folio.

Here and there minor defects/ trifle browned in blank margins (e.g. worm tunnel in bottom margin of first few leaves); top free endpapers tender; several plates with small tears on fold; vellum with a few small tears and slightly soiled. Good copy of the third edition, first published in 1687 and 1691.