Handt-vesten ende privilegie[n] van Amstelredam

Mitsgaders sekere custuymen, oude-ghebruycken ende willekeuren der zelver stede. Item verscheyden placcaten van verscheyde[n] zaken, als opt stuck vanden banquerouten, dovarien, monopolien, woeckenaers, erffenisse van gheestelijcke luyden asseurantien &c. Met noch zekere extracten uyt den custuymen van Handtwerpen nopende den asseurantien ende wisselbrieven. No place or publisher (Amsterdam), 1597, (8),192 p., with woodcut coat of arms on the title page, woodcut initials, plain chintz paper cover (defect to spine), small 4to.

Partly waterstained in bottom margin. Rare and early publication of the Amsterdam city regulations, agreements, customs and laws, printed 20 years after the so-called Alteratie, the change of power in Amsterdam on 26 May 1578 when the Catholic city government was removed. Trade interests played an important rule in this turnaround, as Amsterdam became isolated and other cities threatened to take over the trade.