Le miroir de la cruelle, & horrible tyrannie espagnole perpetree au Pays Bas, par le tyran duc de Albe, & aultres co[m]mandeurs de par le roy Philippe le deuxiesme
Subtitle: on a adjoinct la deuxiesme partie de les tyrannies commises aux Indes occidentales par les Espagnols.
Contributors: Cloppenburch, Jan Evertsz. 1571-1648.; Vinckeboons, David, 1576-1629, engraver.; Lons, Dirck Eversen, b. ca. 1599, engraver.; Gysius, Johannes, d. 1652.; Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: ghedruckt by Ian Evertss. Cloppenburg, op't Water tegen over de Koor[n]-Beurs in [de] vergulden Bijbel.
Published: 1620
Place of publication: tot Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Inquisition -- Netherlands; Indians, Treatment of -- Latin America -- Early works to 1800; Netherlands -- History -- Wars of Independence, 1556-1648; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Miroir de la cruelle, et horrible tyrannie espagnole perpetree au Pays Bas; Miroir de la tyrannie espagnole perpetree aux Indes Occidentales : on verra icy la cruaute plus que inhumaine, commise par les Espagnols, aussi la description de ces terres, peuples, et leur nature
Work titles: Spieghel der Spaensche tyrannye gheschiet in Nederlandt. French.
Notes: The first piece is an "abridgement of Gysius' "Netherland disturbances" (cf. Sabin 11256, note) first published anonymously in 1616 with title: Oorsprong en voortgang der Nederlandtscher beroerten. Issued by Cloppenburch, to whom the work has been wrongly attributed, as supplementary to his editions of the piece by Bartolomé de las Casas.

Two volumes in one: the two parts should not be separated although each has its own title page and pagination--Palau y Dulcet.

Title printed within engraved historiated border signed DVB [David Vinckeboons] in[cidit], DEL [Dirck Eversen Lons] fe[cit]. Same border and illustrations as in the Dutch edition of 1620.

Publication statement is part of the engraved border on t.p.: same border and publication statement for both titles in this edition.

Illustrations are etchings after De Bry.

Signatures: (:)⁴ A-Y⁴ (E3 missigned E in some copies); A-R⁴ (C2 missigned A2).

Leaf 88 (2nd group) misfoliated 87. Leaves 39 and 52 (3rd group) misfoliated 38 and 25.

Listed in Maggs Bros. catalog no. 479 (1926), item 4150, for £25.

Includes, with same imprint, on 68 leaves (i.e. 136 p.) at end: Le miroir de la tyrannie espagnole perpetree aux Indes Occidentales : on verra icy la cruaute plus que inhumaine, commise par les Espagnols, ausi la dscription de ces terres, peuples, et leur nature. Mise en lumiere par un Evesque Bartholome de las Casas, de l'Ordre de S. Dominic. Nouvellement refaicte, avec les figurs en cuyvre.

LC Copy 1 has leaves 17-18 (sig. E1-2, 2nd group) misbound after leaf 20. Leaf 27 (3rd group, signed G3) repaired with some loss of paper and text. Has ink stamp: Library of Congress, City of Washington, 1867.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 620/37 and 620/74.

JCB lib. cat., pre-1675, 2:146.

Palau y Dulcet (2d. ed.) vol. 9, p. 389, item 172663; vol. 3, p. 247, item 46962 ff.

Sabin vol. 3, p. 398, item 11270

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