[DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATIES].
Recueil van de tractaten, gemaeckt en gesloten tusschen de Hoog Mog. Heeren Staten Genereael der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre, ende verscheyde Koningen, Princen en Potentaten ter andere zyde.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [not before 1701]. 73 pamphlets in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page with the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General. 70 of the 73 treaties have a separate title page, the other 3 were published without thus the work is complete. 67 of these 70 treaties with a title page contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General, 2 of the earlier treaties bear Van Wouw's woodcut printer's device on their title pages, 1 title page shows a simple woodcut floral vignette, 1 title page does not contain any (woodcut) decoration, and 1 treaty without a title page does contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General at the start of the text. Further with woodcut decorated initials throughout the treaties. The text is set in both roman and gothic type. Later vellum.
€ 2,500
Comprehensive collection of bilateral and multilateral treaties detailing the diplomatic history of the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War until the beginning of the 18th century. The first treaty concerns the Union of Delft (25 April 1576) with which the provinces of Holland and Zeeland were united in a federation led by William of Orange. It is followed directly by publications of the Pacification of Ghent (8 November 1576) and the Union of Utrecht (23 January 1579), after which all treaties in the present work were drawn up by the United Provinces of the Netherlands (also known as the Dutch Republic) and other leading European powers.
Unsurprisingly, several treaties concern the very strained relationship between the Dutch Republic and Spain during and following the Eighty Years' War (1566/68-1648), including the Twelve Years' Truce (1609-1621, see treaties 4-6) and border conflicts in Flanders after the end of the war, since that was a major event in Dutch diplomatic and military history during the 16th- and 17th centuries. The other treaties, the majority in this binding, concern - also unsurprisingly - trade, commerce, and the establishment and maintenance of international trade routes by land and sea. The majority of the treaties are in Dutch and many are included multiple times in different languages (Latin, French, and even one in Portuguese).
A detailed list of contents is available upon request.
From the library of the former Dominican convent in Tienen, Belgium, with their purple stamp on the title page ("Ex bibliotheca conventus thenensis O.F.F. predicatorum"), some treaties are browned and/or foxed, the vellum tabs along the fore edge are somewhat soiled as expected (due to use). Overall in very good condition. STCN 166248398 (8 copies; calls for 73 titles), 293107963 (5 copies, incl. 3 with the 73rd title; calls for 72 titles with a possible 73rd addition).
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