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Effects of peace on the East & West Indian trade
[USSELINCX, Willem?].Consideratien vande Vrede in Nederlandt Gheconcipieert, anno 1608.    (Amsterdam?), (1608). 2 works in one. 4to. The Frederik Muller copy, in nineteenth-century blue wrappers with his label. With a drop-title. (4) pp. With: (ANONYMOUS). ARTIJCKELEN VANDEN TREFFUES OFTE BESTANT, voorgestelt by de Heeren Ambassadeurs vande Coningen van Vranckrijck en(de) Groot Britagnien inde vergaderinge vande Heeren Staten Generael. (Amsterdam?), (1608). With a drop-title. (4) pp. Two small pamphlets issued during the peace negotiations that led to the Twelve Years' Truce during the Eighty Years' War. The first repeatedly stresses the importance of the Dutch trade in the East and West Indies, which Spain wished to strictly limit as a condition for peace. It argues that Spain has proven her untrustworthiness (citing various examples) and fills her coffers from the Indies while the Dutch Republic stands by, notes that the East Indian trade has brought much profit and honour to the Dutch at Spain's expense, and that the same could be expected from the West Indian trade if it were encouraged. It also notes that with peace those who have formerly traded in the Indies from the Netherlands might (out of fear of Spanish reprisals) move elsewhere (clearly meaning to the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands). Finally it notes that the Dutch have shown they can capture Spanish ships, which will in the future put them in a better position to bargain for a more favourable peace. This pamphlet must have originally been issued early in 1608, for it appeared with all three editions of the Nederlandtsche Bye-Korf before it was banned with most of the Bye-Korf pamphlets on 27 August 1608. The present edition is printed on the same paper stock as the third edition of the Bye-Korf, watermarked: Pot (bearing a letter "M" and with the base depicted by a double line) topped by grapes (the pamphlet comprises only a half sheet, the present copy with the watermark, but from other works printed on the same stock we know there is no countermark). It is probably the third of the three recorded printings. Several of the key Bye-Korf pamphlets were written by Usselincx (1567-ca. 1647), whose most beloved project was the establishment of the West India Company, and the present pamphlet presents several of his favourite arguments against the peace. The second pamphlet appeared after the Spanish contingent left the negotiating table on 30 September 1608, so it came too late for inclusion in the Bye-Korf. The cease-fire had been extended to the end of 1608, and the present pamphlet presents fifteen articles for a the terms of a ten-year truce beginning on 1 January 1608, proposed to Archduke Albert of Austria (governor of the Spanish Netherlands) and the States General by France, England and several of the German princes. It makes no explicit reference to the Indies, but alludes to them in references to "regions outside Europe." The present terms for the truce were never ratified, the final version taking effect for twelve years from 9 April 1609. Muller's own copy, described in Tiele, with his label with the number 660. Tiele treated the two works as one, quoting the drop-title on the first page, but noting eight pages. Two pamphlets issued during the peace negotiations, the first with special reference to Dutch trade in the East and West Indies. Very good copies, from the collection of Frederik Muller, in nineteenth-century blue wrappers with his label.- (With a couple very minor stains and only slightly browned).
Alden & Landis 608/35 (1st work only); Asher 28/16 (1st work only); Knuttel 1448 & 1544; Simoni C 155 (1st work; cf. N 143, another ed. of the 2nd work); Tiele 660 (this copy: both works under the title of the 1st); OCLC WorldCat (4 copies of each); cf. JCB Add., p. 21 (1st work, ed. not specified).
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