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Middelburg, Zeeland VOC home base
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Amsterdam: VOC headquarters
...and the Dolhuis op nummer 50. Today, the building is part of the University of Amsterdam. Drawing by H. Schouten Published in Nieuwe atlas, van de voornaamste gebouwen en gezigten...
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Amsterdam: WIC headquarters, inner courtyard
...atlas, van de voornaamste gebouwen en gezigten der stad Amsterdam, met derzelver beknopte beschryvingen, second edition. This is a marvellous town-atlas, the greatest work describing 18th century Amsterdam with its...
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s-Hertogenbosch
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Chios
Chios commented by Braun “Chios is one of the Ionian Islands, where there is a city that is renowned for its seaport […], which Thucydides calls the greatest and richest...
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Gallia amplissima regni tabula
de Jode Gerard de Jode was a printer, publisher, cartographer and engraver in Antwerp, active the same time period as his business rival A. Ortelius. His main work Speculum Orbis...
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Estonia with Tallin
...Title: „Die Custe va Lijfflandt, met de Eylanden daer beneffens, also hem dat landt aldaer verthoont en in zyn ghedaente is van Ekeholmen off tot Synburchs nessto”. (The coast line...
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Plön - Plöna
Plön commented by Braun “The Greater Lake, which borders the town and the castle to the south, is two miles long and one mile wide; it is full of fish...
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Algiers
Algiers commented by Braun “The inhabitants of Algiers go on raids, cruising the ocean with scores of galleys, and have laid waste to the islands of Majorca, Minorca and Formentera...
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Schleswig
Schleswig commented by Braun “Long ago Schleswig was the capital of the whole territory of Cimbria, a big city and wealthy because of its important commercial activities, but now it...
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