1. The World Upside Down. Engraving by Antonie Wierix (II) after Marten van Cleve (I), 157971

  2. The Sleeping Lion. Engraving by Antonie Wierix (II) after Marten van Cleve (I), 157973

  3. The Gluttonous Wolf. Engraving by Antonie Wierix (II) after Marten van Cleve (I), 157975

  4. The Blind Shepherds. Engraving by Antonie Wierix (II) after Marten van Cleve (I), 157976

  5. Gerard van Bylaer, Dutch metal of 1578 (‘Succes in de strijd tegen Spanje’)78

  6. Fight among a Lion, Horse, Bull and Dogs, from Philip Galle’s book on Hunting Parties (from the series ‘Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium’). Print by Philip Galle after Jan van der Straet. Published Antwerp, 157880

  7. Copie van seker Refereyn by de overheerde Nederlantsche Provintien aen Hollant gheschreven, beroerende den vrede. Amsterdam, 1598103

  8. Copie van seker Refereyn. Title-page engraving, second version106

  9. Copie van seker Refereyn. Title-page engraving, third version107

  10. Refere[yn] by de overheerde Provinciën aen Hollant ghesonden...Met...Antwoordt. Engraving related to Copie109

  11. Offset of a second version title-page engraving of the Copie left on the verso of the title-page of a copy with a third version engraving111

  12. A true Coppy of the Admonitions. Title-page woodcut imitation of the first version title-page engraving of the Copie113

  13. Articulen ende Conditien vanden peys. Dutch text of the Peace of Vervins which was published in English together with A true Coppy (Fig. 11.6)115

  14. A true coppie of the admonitions. Title-page of the Edinburgh edition117

  15. Aen Hollandt [and] Antwoordt. Engraving related to Copie118

  16. Antwoordt op het tweede Refereyn. Title-page120

  17. The second Admonition...With the...aunswere. Title-page121

  18. Aende afghewekene Provinciën. Title-page123

  19. Aende Afgewekene Provintien...Aenwysinghe opt vermaen. Title-page124

  20. Town hall (Stadthuis), Middelburg, Zeeland, The Netherlands129

  21. Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Legend of the Relics of St John the Baptist, c.1460/65–before 1495131

  22. Rogier van der Weyden, The Middelburg Altar, c.1450132

  23. Detail of flying buttresses of St John, ’s-Hertogenbosch133

  24. Old Town Hall, The Hague, The Netherlands136

  25. Hercules with Medusa’s head, Old Town Hall, The Hague, The Netherlands137

  26. Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Town Hall, Haarlem, c.1626139

  27. Town hall, Haarlem, The Netherlands140

  28. Jan Harmensz. Muller, after Cornelis Cornelisz, Arion on the Dolphin, 1589144

  29. Plato’s Cave, Jan Saenredam, after Cornelis Cornelisz, 1604145

  30. Tabula Cebetis, Jacob Matham, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1592146

  31. Harmonia nascentis mundi, in Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia Universalis, Haarlem, 1650149

  32. Pages D I version - D ii recto from Keyser Otto den derden, en Goldrada (...) Tweede Deel, 1617157

  33. Formation of geomantic symbol158

  34. Geomantic pattern with fifteen symbols159

  35. Horoscope diagram containing twelve houses159

  36. Theophelos’ werck: sigla/names of the signs of the zodiac160

  37. Theophelos’ werck: geomantic symbols/names161

  38. Pages D I version - D ii recto from Keyser Otto den derden, en Goldrada (...) Tweede Deel (in a modern edition)162

  39. Theophelos’ werck interpreted163

  40. Nicolaes Maes, Woman Plucking a Duck, c.1655–1656221

  41. Pieter de Hooch, Woman with a Child and a Maid in an Interior, 1675–1684222

  42. Pieter de Hooch, A Housewife Instructing her Maid, 1644–1683223

  43. Illustration from Incogniti Scriptoris Nova Poemata, 3rd ed. N.p. 1624225

  44. Vertus d’une damoiselle d’honneur. Engraving by Matthäus Merian, 1611225

  45. Gabriel Metsu, The Hunter’s Present, c.1658–c.1661227

  46. Illustration from D. V. Cornhert, Recht ghebruyck ende misbruyck van tijdlicke have, 2nd ed., Amsterdam 1610230

  47. Adriaen van Gaesbeeck, Nähende Mutter mit zwei Knaben an der Wiege (Mother sewing with two boys by the cradle), c.1645231

  48. Johan Baptista Houwaert, Pegasides pleyn ofte den lust-hof der maechden, 5th ed., 1623232