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[SPAANSE WREEDHEDEN]

Den Spaenschen ende Arragoenschen Spiegel
[Haarlem
Gillis Rooman]
1599
€80 - €140

Sm. 4to, 134 pp, engraved title-page showing cruelties. (ink stains on title-page). Paper age-toned, some damp-staining, small hole in p. 17 (poor copy). Worn calf binding of the period

"Ref. Tiele 435 ; Typographia Batava 4692 ; Knuttel 1078: ""Belangrijke verzameling van stukken over den Westphaalschen krijg. (...) De titel is versierd met eene afbeelding der Spaansche wreedheid in een spiegel vertoond, waarnaar mannen uit allerlei natiën met afschrik wijzen (...)."" For the title-vignette see: Schmidt, Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670, p.106f"

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