Amsterdams dam-praetje
Subtitle: van wat outs en wat nieuws en wat vreemts
Contributors: Sousa-Leão, Joaquim de, 1897-; Braekman, Willy Louis, 1931-
Publisher: By Ian van Soeft [i.e. J. van Hilten?], boeckverkooper op de Kalver-Dijck
Published: 1649
Place of publication: Tot Amsterdam
Language: dut
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Dutch; West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands); Foreign relations; History
Other titles: Amsterdams tafel-praetje, van wat goets en wat quaets en wat noodichs.; Amsterdams vuur-praetje, van 'teen ende 'tander datter nu om gaet.
Notes: The name of the printer is false. According to Muller, this pamphlet was probably printed in Amsterdam by J. van Hilten.

139475532) was issued with a reset title page reading: Amsterdams dam-praetje, van wat outs en wat nieuws. En wat vreemts, with identical imprint.

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 vuur-praetje, van 'teen ende 'tander datter nu om gaet"

Pamphlet in the form of a dialogue advancing the Portuguese cause against the Dutch West India Company in Brazil.

Signatures: A-E⁴ (E4 verso blank)

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

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), I: p. 33.

Muller, F. Bibliotheek van Nederlandsche pamfletten, II:3527.

Rodrigues, J.H. Historiografia e bibliografia do domínio holandês no Brasil, 67.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands). Catalogus van de pamfletten-verzameling berustende in de Koninklijke bibliotheek, 6477.

Asher, G.M. Bibliographical and historical essay on the Dutch books and pamphlets relating to New-Netherland, 263.

European Americana, 649/8.

Short title catalogue Netherlands, 840659156.

Purchase; 1996; 97-18.

Purchase; 2016; 17-120.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in modern red cloth-covered boards; includes later blue paper wrappers; bound pamphlet is detached from binding.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1: J. de Sousa-Leão; book stamp on front pastedown.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 quarter bound in modern morocco with blue paper-covered boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Prof. Dr. W. L. Braekman: bookplate on front pastedown.