Amsterdams vuur-praetje
Subtitle: van 'teen ende 'tander datter nu om gaet
Publisher: Gedruckt by Claes Pietersz [i.e. J. van Hilten?] boeckverkooper
Published: 1649
Place of publication: t'Amstelredam
Language: dut
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Dutch; West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands); Foreign relations; History
Other titles: Amsterdams dam-praetje, van wat outs en wat nieuws en wat vreemts.; Amsterdams tafel-praetje, van wat goets en wat quaets en wat noodichs.
Notes: Virgule in imprint is replaced by a comma in transcription.

The name of the printer is false. According to Muller, this pamphlet was probably printed in Amsterdam by J. van Hilten.

This anonymous pamphlet is part of a trio of anonymously published works by J. van Hilten in the same year relating to the Dutch in Brazil. The other two have titles: "Amsterdams tafel-praetje, van wat goets en wat quaets en wat noodichs" and "Amsterdams dam-praetje, van wat outs en wat nieuws en wat vreemts"

Pamphlet in the form of a dialogue concerning Francisco de Sousa Coutinho's negotiations over Dutch interests in Brazil.

Signatures: A-D⁴ E²

Printer's ornament on title page; tail piece; initial.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), I: p. 34.

Muller, F. Bibliotheek van Nederlandsche pamfletten, II:3528.

Rodrigues, J.H. Historiografia e bibliografia do domínio holandês no Brasil, 70.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands). Catalogus van de pamfletten-verzameling berustende in de Koninklijke bibliotheek, 6478.

European Americana, 649/10.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II:388.

Short title catalogue Netherlands, 842892877.

Purchase; 1919; 12483.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in modern calf with marbled boards.