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1609WRCAM33906The Hague: Hillebrant Iacobz 1609. 11pp. Large vignette on titlepage. Modern marbled boards. Very good. The original edition of the official Dutch text of the "Twelve Years' Truce" between the United Provinces and Spain. There are thirty- eight articles of which nine deal with foreign trade. The present issue undoubtedly the first contains a few errors which were corrected in later issues. By this treaty the Dutch agreed to stay out of Spanish controlled possessions in the New World. However it conceded the right of the Dutch to trade in the East Indies and on the basis of this and the breathing room the treaty gave them they were able to rout the Spanish in the 1620s. Savelle calls the Twelve Years' Truce "a great international triumph for all the challengers of the Hispano-Portuguese monopoly" on New World colonization since it marked the first explicit recognition of the right of any non- Iberian people to sail to the Americas. Spain tacitly recognized the right of the Dutch to own colonies in the New World a right which the Dutch French and British vigorously pursued in the ensuing decades. An important treaty and quite scarce. OCLC locates three copies. Not in EUROPEAN AMERICANA. DAVENPORT 28. KNUTTEL 1589. SAVELLE THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY pp.31-34. OCLC 8525118 17751928. Hillebrant Iacobz hardcover books
16013078London:: Impensis G. Bishop 1601. FIRST EDITION second issue with cancel title page. Folio:. 33 x 22 cm. Ï€6 par.4 a-b6 A8 B-3I6 3K4; A-3G6 3H4 3I-3O6 3P8 lacking blank leaves Ï€1 and 3P8 Complete in two parts; with a divisional title page to the second tome and the errata/colophon on leaf 3P7 Bound in contemporary English calfskin ruled in blind rebacked and recornered in morocco. An excellent crisp bright copy with very minor faults: repaired clean tear with no loss leaf P4. A few signatures with very light marginal dampstains. Occasional rust spots marginal tears or marginal natural paper flaws no loss whatsoever. Title pages to both volumes. The first with an elaborate architectural border with Solomonic columns. The second with a large woodcut device. An impressive book. “The ‘Natural History’ of Pliny the Elder is more than a natural history: it is an encyclopaedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world… It comprises 37 books with mathematics and physics geography and astronomy medicine and zoology anthropology and physiology philosophy and history agriculture and mineralogy the arts and letters… The ‘Historia’ soon became a standard book of reference; abstracts and abridgements appeared by the third century. Bede owned a copy Alcuin sent the early books to Charlemagne and Dicuil the Irish geographer quotes him in the ninth century. It was the basis of Isidore's Etymologiae and such medieval encyclopedias as the Speculum Majus of Vincent of Beauvais and the Catholicon of Balbus. One of the earliest books to be printed at Venice the centre from which so much of classical literature was first dispensed it was later translated into English by Philemon Holland in 1601 and twice reprinted a notable achievement for so vast a text… Over and over again it will be found that the source of some ancient piece of knowledge is Pliny.†PMM 5 “Holland's first book the first complete rendering of Livy into English was published in 1600 when he was nearly fifty. It was a work of great importance presented in a grand folio volume of 1458 pages and dedicated to the queen. … “The Livy was followed in the next year by an equally huge translation of the elder Pliny: The Historie of the World Commonly called the Naturall Historie. This encyclopaedia of ancient knowledge about the natural world had already had a great indirect influence in England as elsewhere in Europe but had not been translated into English before and would not be again for 250 years.â€ODNB Pforzheimer 496; STC 2nd ed. 20029 Impensis G. Bishop, unknown books
1610WRCAM33905The Hague: Hillebrant Iacobsz 1610. 8pp. Large vignette on titlepage. Modern marbled boards. Very good. This pamphlet provides further definitions of the terms of the Twelve Years' Truce between Spain and the Netherlands. While negotiated as a prelude to permanent peace both sides hoped to use the truce from the long and grueling Dutch war of independence to build their military resources. In the end it greatly benefited the Dutch who ended the peace in 1621 greatly strengthened. Rare. Not in EUROPEAN AMERICANA. KNUTTEL 1721. Hillebrant Iacobsz hardcover books
