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Company history

Founded in 1971, HES Publishers expanded in 2000 by the incorporation of the renowned DE GRAAF Publishers. Both houses were to continue as an entity, under the new name of HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV. We maintain a search for well-written authorative manuscripts, relative to our special fields, for publication. If you have, or know of such a manuscript or are in the process of writing one, do please get in touch with our Publication Department.



Profile

We are publishers of 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. We also publish books on a wide variety of other subjects, such as:


  • Fine Arts
  • Cartography
  • Travel and Navigation
  • History of Sciences
  • Humanism and Neo-Latin Literature
  • Literary History and Linguistics
  • Theology and Church History (the Reformation in particular)
  • Antiques
  • Gastronomy
  • Sports and Games

We have rare reprints and classics on all of the above topics, including numerous well-known standard works such as:


  • Belgica Typographica (E. Cockx-Indestege & G. Glorieux eds.; refered to in the scholarly literature as the BT)
  • P. Valkema Blouw's Typographia Batava (TB)
  • G. van Thienen's Incunabula in Dutch Libraries (IDL) and Incunabula printed in the Low Countries. A Census (ILC)
  • P. van Huisstede & J.P.J. van den Brandhorst's Dutch Printer's Devices
  • The standard work on the world-famous 'Utrecht Psalter': The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art (K. van der Horst, W. Noel & W.C.M. Wüstefeld, eds.)
  • A new publication on the cartography of Holland by D. Blonk & J. Blonk-van der Wijst: Hollandia Comitatus
  • A detailed description in 6 illustrated volumes of the famous 50 volume Atlas-Blaeu - Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library by P. van de Krogt & E. de Groot
  • P. van der Krogt's completely new edition of Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici in 9 volumes bound in ca. 15 parts
  • A publication about Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century by Jan Storm van Leeuwen
  • Marco van Egmond's Covens & Mortier. A Map Publishing House in Amsterdam 1685-1866.
  • Bloembollen in Holland 1860-1919. De ontwikkeling van de bloembollensector met een doorkijk naar de 21ste eeuw by Maarten Timmer
  • Facsimile of 11 volumes of the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem relating to non-European parts of the world in true size and colours. 100 sets only produced.
  • etc.

Many of the new books are published in one or other of our series, such as:


  • Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica
  • Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica
  • Homo Ludens
  • Dutch Classics in History of Science
  • Penman's Paradise (a series of Writing and Lettering Books in facsimile)
  • etc.

Contact

HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV
PO Box 540, 3990 GH, Houten
Netherlands
Phone: (+31) (0) 30 63 80071
Fax: (+31) (0) 30 63 80099
E-mail: info@hesdegraaf.com

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