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A tale of betrayal, murder, the devil, accompanied by sibyls' prophesies
to predict and illustrate the Twelve Years' Truce between the Low Countries and Spain

[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE].
[Dees wonder-maer end' prophetsije wis, door's geests gesicht, gebooren is, ...].
[Amsterdam?, 1607/1608]. Small 4to. Sprinkled paper wrappers. [16] pp.
€ 375
A political pamphlet warning against any dealings with Spain, in the form of a prophetic story of betrayal, the devil and murder, and prophesies by the ten Sibyls of the outcome of the negotiations.
Netherlands' help.
The present pamphlet contains a curiously cryptic and rather mysterious anti-Spanish tale.
With the upper, outer corner of leaf 6 (pp. 11-12) torn off, with the loss of a few words of text, and the last line on the last page has been cut slightly short, affecting only the descending letters. A printer's error appears to have led to the loss of the first few letters of the beginning of the last few lines on the first page, the pamphlet has been disbound before the paper wrappers were glued on, causing the inner leaves to come loose. Some minor soiling and very slight fraying of the head- and fore-edge. Otherwise in good condition. Alden & Landis 608/41 (6 copies); Asher 26/35; Knuttel 1464; Tiele 675; WorldCat (3 copies); STCN (7 copies); not in JCB or Simoni.
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