TRACTAET VAN 'T BESTANT, GHEMAECKT ENDE BESLOTEN BINNEN DE STADT ENDE CITE VAN ANTWERPEN, DEN NEGENSTEN APRILIS 1609.

[Holland-Spain Treaty]

Published by Hillebrant Iacobz, The Hague, 1609

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[11]pp. Large vignette on titlepage. Modern marbled boards. Very good. The original edition of the official Dutch text of the "Twelve Years' Truce" between the United Provinces and Spain. There are thirty- eight articles, of which nine deal with foreign trade. The present issue, undoubtedly the first, contains a few errors which were corrected in later issues. By this treaty the Dutch agreed to stay out of Spanish controlled possessions in the New World. However, it conceded the right of the Dutch to trade in the East Indies, and on the basis of this and the breathing room the treaty gave them, they were able to rout the Spanish in the 1620s. Savelle calls the Twelve Years' Truce "a great international triumph for all the challengers of the Hispano-Portuguese monopoly" on New World colonization, since it marked the first explicit recognition of the right of any non- Iberian people to sail to the Americas. Spain tacitly recognized the right of the Dutch to own colonies in the New World, a right which the Dutch, French, and British vigorously pursued in the ensuing decades. An important treaty and quite scarce. OCLC locates three copies. Not in EUROPEAN AMERICANA. DAVENPORT 28. KNUTTEL 1589. SAVELLE, THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY, pp.31-34. OCLC 8525118, 17751928. Seller Inventory # WRCAM33906

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Title: TRACTAET VAN 'T BESTANT, GHEMAECKT ENDE ...

Publisher: Hillebrant Iacobz, The Hague

Publication Date: 1609