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WARNING TO SMUGGLERS: 2ND COPY LOCATED
ADMIRALITEIT OP DE MAAS. MAERTENSZ. Karel, and Gerbrand ZAS VAN DEN BOSSCHE. [Incipit:] De Gecommitteerde Raden ter Admiraliteyt, residerende binnen Rotterdam, notificeren by desen allen Koopluyden ende Schippers ..., dat hare Hoogh Mog. by ... resolutie ... vanden negenden deser lopende maent April, om de Frauden die Bevonden Wierden Begaen te Werden door de Schippers, ...
[text signed and dated:] [Rotterdam], Admiraliteit op de Maas, 15 April 1676. 4to. With 1 woodcut decorative initial. Set in textura types, with the authors' names in roman. Disbound.
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Second copy located of the first and only edition of an pamphlet by the Dutch Admiralty office at Rotterdam, announcing to merchants and ships' captains that the States General passed a resolution on 9 April 1676 to fight fraud by ships' captains, and that in accordance with the resolution, the Admiralty will be checking ships in Holland and West Friesland that trade on the Mediterranean coast of Spain (particularly Cadiz and San Lucas) or sail to the Strait of Gibraltar. Ships trading in the Mediterranean had to pay taxes to the Directors of the Levant Trading Company, but some had attempted to avoid them. The Admiralty was authorized to board their ships and fine them. The announcement was made in the name of the Admiralty by Karel Maertensz. (otherwise unknown) and Gerbrand Zas van den Bossche (d. 1701), who was Secretary of the Admiraliteit op de Maas in Rotterdam from 1 August 1676 to his death on 9 April 1701. The Text (115 mm/20 line) textura used for the main text shows a distinctive mixture, with some letters in the Lettersnijder style of the 1490s, some in a sixteenth-century French-influenced style and a seventeenth-century Z. The only other copy we hae located is at the Amsterdam University Library.
In very good condition. An extremely rare announcement issued by the Admiralty at Rotterdam as a warning to smugglers.
