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A scarce and attractive view of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, in the early 17th century. It was based on a view from the voyages of the Dutch mariner, Joris van Spilbergen.

The French writer Rene Augustin de Renneville was imprisoned in the Bastille 1702 - 1713. He edited and translated Isaac Commelin's work on the early voyages of the Dutch East India Company. Joris van Spilbergen was a Dutch Admiral who circumnavigated the world in the early seventeenth century (1614 - 1617). He was one of the earliest Dutch voyagers to the East traveling to Ceylon and Bantam from 1601 to 1604.

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Renneville, Rene Augustin Constantin de  -  Receuil des Voyages qui on servi a l'etablissement et aux progres de la Compangnie des Indes Orientales,Tome IV, p.555, published Amsterdam in 1705.