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(CASAS, BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS.) Le Miroir de la Cruelle, & horrible Tyrannie Espagnole perpetree au Pays Bas . . . On a adjoinct le Deuxiesme Partie de les Tyranniescommises 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
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.
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