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Very rare pamphlet against the twelve years' truce, with nice engraved title-page
(TWELVE YEAR'S TRUCE). Een oud-schipper van Monickendam, daer ons den vromen held uyt quam, die eerst den Spaengiaerd de zee deed' ruymen, sprack als volght, naer scheeps coustuymen.  N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (1608). Small 4to. With full-page title-engraving depicting a game of stick-pulling with incorporated title (as above), woodcut headpiece and 1 large initial. (7), (1 blank) pp. Rare pamphlet against the peace between the Dutch and the Spanish, with the engraved title preserved (lacking in the copy described by Knuttel). The pamphlet was apparently very popular as it went through about 10 different editions. The exact order of these editions is unknown, but both Knuttel and Tiele list this edition first. Our copy has all their points listed for this edition, such as the word Spaengiaert (in other editions Spaegniaert or Spaangiaert) in the drop-title and the first line of the text ending with: en word (in another edition: en wort). According to Tiele and Knuttel the pamphlet is "een van de aardigst geschreven blauwboekjes tegen de vrede." The anonymous print depicts a Dutch sailor and a Spagniard, pulling on either side of the stick that represents the Indies. Six other people are watching the two contestors, without offering help. The viewer that stands farthest away is adorned with the Golden Fleece, and might very well represent prince Maurits. The author of the text is clearly against a truce. He urges the reader not to just watch what happens but to help the Dutch sailor to preserve the stick and to make sure that he is not being offered "slaep-cruyt" (sleeping-herb, the Treves). The pamphlet was also published in the third edition of the Bye-Korf (actually the final pamphlet in that collection). Perhaps also because it was the only pamphlet with an engraved illustration, it was considered especially dangerous and therefore explicitly named when most of the Bye-Korf pamphlets were banned on the 27th of August, 1608. Good copy.- (Engraved title-page cut sl. short in lower margin; sl. browned; number in pen next to drop title).
Alden & Landis 608/124 (various editions: "Includes refs to Tierra del Fuego and West Indies"); Asher 28/ 38; Knuttel 1467; Tiele 676; Simoni O 47. For the fine engraved title-page: Muller, Historieplaten, 1254a; Atlas van Stolk 1221.
Related Subjects: 17th Century Americana History Low Countries Maritime History Pamphlets Prints Spain Add to Shopping cart |
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