76/5047 [Amsterdam and surroundings]. "Byrsa Amsterodamensis". Engraving by ? w. oval profile of the city seen from the Y in lower margin, w. an oval cartouche to the left w. a 6-line Dutch verse titled "Neptunus tot Mercurius" and an oval cartouche to the right w. the 6-line verse translated into Latin, 23,9x32,4 cm., n.pl., Cornelius Joannes, ±1612.

- Sl. yellowed; a few sm. wormholes; vague flattened folds (not visible on recto).

= Very rare view, based on the view by B.A. BOLSWERT. Not in F.M. and a variant of the copy held in the Rijksmuseum: the oval panorama below is distinctly different (but identical to the copy in the Stadsarchief Amsterdam). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.