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Nieuwe beschrijvinghe der Graefschap Hollandt met de landen daer an grensen /, grundtlijck en perfekt gemaeckt ; Ioannes à Duetecum excudebat.
Doetecum, Joannes van, de Jongere
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work is a 16th-century cartographic publication consisting of a map and associated descriptive text (toponyms and legends). Extensive searches across major library and scholarly catalogs yielded no evidence of an English translation. Given the nature of the work as a map-based document, a formal literary translation is not applicable, and no scholarly or facsimile translation of the text has been identified.
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Step back into 1585 to see the County of Holland exactly as Joannes van Doetecum mapped it. This text serves as a direct, functional record of the cities, islands, and waterways that defined the region at the height of the Dutch Renaissance.