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Finding their Way at Sea.
Through these astonishingly beautiful and functional portolan charts, we can trace developments in trade and warfare, exploration and colonial domination from the late medieval period through the Renaissance and into the Age of European Enlightenment.
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Setting the Scene. The Amsterdam Stage in Pictures 1665-1772.
This book comprises a series of fifteen Amsterdam Schouwburg set prints from the eighteenth century, accompanied by detailed discussions.
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Engraving and Etching 1400-2000. The Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking.
This comprehensively illustrated study is the first of its kind to cover all elements of the trade of engraving and etching throughout six centuries.
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Facsimile edition of the atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem
Our most prestigious project to date. Over a decade of planning, preparation, research and production has accumulated into a facsimile of uncompromising quality, with over 800 maps, charts, views and drawings.
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Japoniæ insulæ. The mapping of Japan.
In The Mapping of Japan Jason C. Hubbard systematically categorizes and provides an overview of all the European printed maps of Japan published to 1800. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully printed and bound.
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Early Photographs of Mecca. Unpublished work by C. Snouck-Hurgronje
A high-end fascimile of all seminal photographs by C. Snouck-Hurgronje, including never before published potraits of Meccan residents. Expertly commentated and described by Prof. Dr. J.J. Witkam.
HES & DE GRAAF Publishers specializes in scholarly works on books, on the history of books, on the history of their production and on any interesting topic related to manuscripts as well as the printed book.
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Early Photographs of Mecca
Jan Just WitkamA magnificent facsimile-edition of the 40 magnificent photographs, originally published in 1889 in the Bilder Atlas to the classic 2-volume work on Mecca by the world famous Dutch orientalist and islamologist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje.
Ortelius Atlas Maps. An illustrated Guide. Second revised edition.
M. van den BroeckeThis revised edition contains corrections, extra information to date the charts more correctly, descriptions of the title page and a portrait of Ortelius.
Printed Cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700: A Bibliography of Early Modern Culinary Literature
Henry NotakerThis is the first bibliography to list all known editions of printed cookbooks published in Europe before 1700. Many of the editions described have never before been listed in modern bibliographies.
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Finding their Way at Sea. The story of the portolan charts, the cartographers who drew them and the mariners who sailed by them.
Richard PfledererThrough these astonishingly beautiful and functional charts, the author traces developments in trade and warfare, exploration and colonial domination from the late medieval period through the Renaissance and into the Age of European Enlightenment. With an introduction by Tony Cambell.
Schouwburg in beeld. Amsterdamse toneelscènes 1665-1772. Setting the Scene. The Amsterdam Stage in Pictures 1665-1772.
Wiebe HogendoornThis book comprises a series of fifteen Amsterdam Schouwburg set prints from the eighteenth century, accompanied by detailed discussions.
Woodcuts in Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries
Ina KokA seminal work which provides the user with a complete census of the woodcuts in Dutch and Flemish incunabula, and a record of all places in which they appear.
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Jan Moretus I. A Bibliography of his editions
Dirk ImhofThis extensive bibliography contains 704 descriptions of the Jan Moretus editions and lists over 500 announcements that he printed for the city of Antwerp.
The History of the Library in Western Civilization. Volume VI: The Index & Bibliography
Konstantinos Sp. StaikosThisis the extensive indexfor all five volumes of 'The History of the Library in Western Civilization'.
Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book
Andrea Immel, Brian AldersonOne of the most famous of children’s books, Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book (1744) contains some thirty-nine charmingly illustrated rhymes, many still current today.
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