Tan card binding with title on the spine. Age considered, in fine condition. In a newly made fitted box.

Boxed in a protective case this is a unique book which explores the establishment of New Amsterdam prior to its capture by the English, thereafter being renamed as New York.

Janus Dousa (Latinized from Jan van der Does), Lord of Noordwyck (6 December 1545 – 8 October 1604), was a Dutch statesman, jurist, historian, poet and philologist, and the first Librarian of Leiden University Library.