Title print for 'Cartes marines a l'usage des armées du roy de la Grande Bretagne' by Romeyn de Hooghe, Romeyn de Hooghe, 1693, A woman wearing a headdress of ship's hulls on her head (personification of seafaring) reads in a large book of maps, while holding with her left hand a chain to which two mermaids are bound. In the center plan and background, the columns of Hercules between which a coat of arms is stretched, and Atlas towering over the celestial vault on the mountain named after him., print maker: Romeyn de Hooghe, (mentioned on object), Romeyn de Hooghe, (mentioned on object

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