Author: GELUWE, ARNOUDT VAN,
Title: Eerste Deel over de Ontledinghe Van dry verscheyden Nieuw-Ghereformeerde Martelaers Boecken, ofte Reden-Kamp-Strydt Tusschen de Lutheriaenen, Calvinisten, ende Weder-doopers (...) Part 1, 2 and 3.
Description: Complete with the second and third part in one binding. Each part has it's own halftitle. Antwerpen, By de Weduwe ende Erf-ghenamen van Jan Cnobbaert, 1656, 4to., full parchment spitsel binding with red sprinkled edges, [34]+426+[13] pp., the pagenumbers are a bit messy in some sections (e.g. 40-50 pp and 70-90 pp.) but the text seems to be complete according to the signature marks, solid bookblock with intact construction, the endpapers on the inside of the cover show cracks because of the tension of the parchment, bookblock with only some waterstains. Text in Gothic font and printed in two columns. With engraved frontispiece, decorative initials and lovely endpieces, and 21 engravings, mostly within the collation. Most engravings depict characters from the book with written phrases from their mouths, almost like we see in comicbooks nowadays. That fits the ironic tone of these phrases. l This polemical book was written to stand against the Protestant books of martyrs. The author ("Arnoudt van Geluwe onghestudeerden Vlaemschen Boer van Hardoye" ("uneducated farmer") according to the halftitle of the first part) (1604-1675) states that the Protestants have falsely claimed many popes, bishops and monks for their own, while these religious people died Roman Catholics.

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