Pamphlet, 1672, Rampjaar | Brillen voor Alderhande Gesichten. Tweede Deel. T'Uytrecht, Gedruckt voor Claes Kijck-uyt, 1672, 10 pp.

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Pamphlet, 1672, Rampjaar | Brillen voor Alderhande Gesichten. Tweede Deel. T’Uytrecht, Gedruckt voor Claes Kijck-uyt, 1672, 10 pp.

Name: Pamphlet, 1672, Rampjaar | Brillen voor Alderhande Gesichten. Tweede Deel. T'Uytrecht, Gedruckt voor Claes Kijck-uyt, 1672, 10 pp.
SKU: 67791
Price: 175.00 EUR
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Pamphlet on current affairs published during the Disaster Year or Rampjaar 1672. Formerly in the collection of Amsterdam Library (stamp)
This pamphlets contains (satirical) dialogues on current politics as seen through magic glasses and binoculars: in a fictional conversation between a glasses merchant and several market-goers. A number of interlocutors are each put on glasses through which they see the underlying motives of recent events: money. Economic and political interests had taken priority over religious interests under the serving government.

Enclosed is also a handwritten contemporary note about the assassination of Cornelis de Witt and the pamphlets that were affixed to the entrance door of the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague. Included in the note is a transcription of the printed text:

“Beelsebuijck heeft geschreeven uijt dehel / Dat Kees d’Wit haest komen sel; / Maer ‘t hooft moet eerst zijn afgeslaegen, / soo wacht hij hem in korten dagen, / sijn Broeder en ‘Hr: van …… zij vol schelmerij, / sij sullen vaeren soo als hij.”

On the day of the assassination, numerous pamphlets had been put up in The Hague early in the morning. The pamphlets called for the murder of the De Witt brothers. One was pasted on the entrance door of the local Nieuwe Kerk. It was no surprise that the pamphlets were affixed to this door: the pastor of the church, Reverend Simon Simonides, had proclaimed in his sermons that the De Witt brothers were devils who needed to be exorcised.

Pamphlets – Dutch politics – religion – Remonstrants – Arminians – Nine Year’s War – French war – Rampjaar – Disaster Year – Dutch History – looking glass – De Witt – The Hague – bril

SKU: 67791

No binding, 17.9 x 14.1 cm. Last folded sheet detached. Some traces of rusty paperclips. In good condition.

€ 190,75 (€ 175,00 ex. btw)

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