[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE].
Generale vermaninghe aenden Switseren. Streckende tot harer behoudenisse ende besten, tegen de beroerten ende peryckelen deses jeghenwoordighen tijts.
Middelburg, for Adriaen vanden Vivre, 1608. 4to. Woodcut illustration on title: a head of a cow with a banderolle withy the coat-of-arms of the Swiss cantons braided in its horns. Disbound. [19], [1 blank] pp.
€ 300
Only edition of a rare pamphlet by a Swiss warning against Spanish supremacy in Europe. The text is translated from the French into Dutch and published, not surprisingly in 1608, on the threshold of the Twelve Year's Truce between the Dutch Republic and Spain (1609-21).
Good copy. Knuttel 1485; Tiele, Pamfletten, 695; Simoni G 39; Zijlstra, Den Zeusem Beesem, 0203.
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