Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CASAS, BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS.) Le Miroir de la Cruelle, & horrible Tyrannie Espagnole perpetree au Pays Bas . . . On a adjoinct le Deuxiesme Partie de les Tyrannies commises aux Indes Occidentales par les Espagnols. General and divisional titles within engraved historiated border; 37 half-page engraved illustrations. [4], 87, [i. e,. 88]; 68 leaves. 2 parts in one volume. Small 4to, 19th-century tree calf with red and green morocco lettering pieces, joints cracked at top; contents toned, arithmetic calculations in ink in blank portion of P4r, blank lower outer corner off ²B3. Bookplates of Oscar Benjamin Cintas and Alberto Parreño. Amsterdam: Jan Evertsz Cloppenburg, 1620

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The first part is an account by Johannes Gysius of atrocities committed by the Spanish in the Netherlands and by Catholics against Protestants in France. The second is a French version of Brevísima Relación de la Destrucción de las Indias, the exposé by Casas of Spanish barbarism in the New World. Alden 620/74; Palau 172663, 46962 note.