Div. - Historie van den Oproer te Amsterdam/Napelse Beroerte - 1696-1702

Convolute of four works in one volume, with 6 copper engravings, and contemporary bound in parchment.

The Naples Stroke: Caused by Mas' Aniello, with its wondrous rise and fall. Augmented with the stroke of Amsterdam. Decorated with register and fine copper plates - Amsterdam, Willem Lamsvelt, 1702, 188 pages. With 3 copper engravings.
2. The Second Part of the Neapolitan Uprising, or Account of the peaceful attitude of the same people, to free themselves and the entire realm from the unbearable yoke of the Spaniards. Translated by LvB (= Lambert van den Bos) - idem - 246 pages. With 2 copper engravings.
3. Continuation and conclusion of the Neapolitan earthquake, or a brief account of how the same people, after much adversity, again came under the obedience of Spain - ibid - 57 pages.
4. [Pieter Rabus] - History of the riot that occurred in Amsterdam, more commendably quelled by the city's Great Eight Authority and loyal citizens, since January 31, 1696 - ibid - 79 pages. With frontispiece. Complete reprint of the original work from 1696.

The first three works depict the revolt of 1647 in the capital of the then-Spanish Kingdom of Naples. There, the population, led by the fisherman Mas Anjello, had risen up en masse against the Spanish government. This story was hugely popular in 17th-century Netherlands.

The fourth account describes the 'aansprekersoproer,' the Amsterdam uprising in 1696 against a new tax on funerals. In early 1696, the Amsterdam city council decided to impose a tax on burials and to hire people for conducting funerals. Amsterdam residents already working privately in the funeral sector, such as the aansprekers, spread the rumor that the poor would henceforth be treated as old rubbish upon their death. The populace, already suffering under previous taxes, rose up in response. On January 31, 1696, angry Amsterdam residents rammed the door of Mayor Jacob Boreel's house on the Herengracht with a lantern pole. They threw his entire inventory into the canal. Afterwards, they went to the house of Captain Spaaroog, the hated head of the militia. The militia responded harshly to the rebels and shot sharply. Two insurgents were hanged from the window of the weighhouse on Dam Square. Although the riot was quickly suppressed, the rebels achieved their goal: the funeral tax was not implemented.