Live auction - Lot 1191
[Dutch Revolt]
Advijs van eenen liefhebber des Neder-landts. Aen Mijn-heeren de dry Staten des voorseyden landts: de selve vermanende dat sy hen vlytichlick versien aengaende haere saecken, om te schouwen den gheweldighen aenstoot die teghen hen-lieden wordt aenghericht.
[Antwerp, Chr. Houwelius (for W. Silvius?), 1579]
Hammer price: €
400
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
4to: [8] ff. (occasional marginal dampstaining).
Unbound, uncut and unopened as issued. Excellent copy.
Anti-Spanish pamphlet printed in Antwerp by the Calvinist Chr. Houweel, a native of Eeklo. He used a special set of woodcut initials as well as a very typical arabesque ornament for his mostly anonymous printed pamphlets (P. Valkema Blouw, "Willem Silvius, Christiaen Houweel and anti-Spanish propaganda, 1577 to 1579", Quaerendo 1994). Printed in Gothic type.
Ref. BT 37. - Knuttel 507. - Pettegree (NB) 22342. - STCN.