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- HES Studies in the History of Cartography and Scientific Instruments
- Studies on Illuminated Manuscrips of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- Monumenta Humanistica Belgica
- Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica Series Maior
- Utrechtse Herdrukken
- Dutch Classics on History of Science
- HES Historische Herdrukken
- HES Studia Historica
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Sailing for the East.. History and catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602-1799.
Volume 10 of the Utrecht Studies of the History of Cartography (EXPLOKART).
The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) was for a period of 200 years responsible for the navigation material for the journey between the Netherlands and the Far East and the inter-Asian trade. In this book with the help of recovered archive materials a never published before overview is given of chart material that was used on a VOC-ship.
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Featured Author
G. Schilder
Günter Schilder (b. 1942) studied geography and history at Vienna University from 1960 to 1967. He undertook two years of research in the Netherlands for his dissertation and in 1970 he obtained a PhD at Vienna University. Since 1971 he has worked in the Netherlands at Utrecht University on the hist...
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Homo Ludens.
A series of reprints of classics in the field of games and entertainment.