SPAIN – CADIZ BY JAN ORLERS, PUBLISHED IN LEIDEN, 1615.

CADIZ - NO TITLE.

Highly decorative copper engraved "bird's-eye view" map showing the sacking of Cadiz by the English fleet under the command of Charles Howard, the Earl of Nottingham, in 1596. The map is dominated by the number of English ships. An interesting item, produced to accompany "La genealogie des illustres Comtes de Nassau", by Jan Orlers, published Leiden 1615.

Measures approx. 225 x 310 mm. Good condition, see photo. 

Attractive hand colour.