PERTINENT VERHAAL UIT AMSTELDAM VAN HET GEEN GEBEURD IS BY DE BEGRAAFFENIS VAN DEN BERUCHTEN PORCELEINKOOPER DANIEL RAAP, OP DEN 15 EN 16 JANUARY 1754 by Raap, Daniel - 1754

Amsterdam, 26sten Augustus 1748, 7 printed pages, no binding, 31x21cm. Pamphlet written in the unruly year 1748 signed by Daniel Raap, Jacob Carel de Huyser, Elie Chatin and Johannes Romans, when Dutch citizens turned against the elite and demanded fairer taxation and more help from stadhouder Willem IV. Not in KB only in Leiden University Library and Rotterdam. Printersemblem of Altytwel (woodcut) on last page, scarce. Daniël Raap (Amsterdam, 1703 - Amsterdam, 10 January 1754) was a porcelain merchant who played a leading role during the Orangist revolution in the Netherlands of 1747-1751. During the opening months of the revolution that would put an end to the Second Stadtholderless Period, Raap, together with other agitators like the journalist Rousset de Missy published pamphlets demanding the restoration of the stadtholderate in the provinces of the Dutch Republic that had abolished the office, and the appointment of the Frisian stadtholder William IV, Prince of Orange, in all provinces to this… Read More