Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic
Claudia Swan


Hardback (B315) | Oct 2021 | Princeton University Press | 9780691207964 | 336pp | 254x203mm | RFB | AUD$110.00, NZD$135.00

A vivid account of the exoticism of the Dutch Republic at a critical moment in its cultural and political history The seventeenth century witnessed a great flourishing of Dutch trade and culture. Over the course of the first half of the century, the northern Netherlands secured independence from the Spanish crown, and the nascent republic sought