Logica memorativa. Chartiludium logicae, sive totius dialecticae memoria.
Strassburg, 1509. Facsimile. With 53 woodcuts of playing cards in the text. Edition limited to 500 copies. Thomas Murner attempted to teach logic by means of playing cards. More info
The History of the Library in Western Civilization. Volume V: From Petrarch to Michelangelo.
In this fifth volume, the author writes about the re-evaluation of the ancient world: this set in motion a quest for the surviving works of ancient Greek and Latin literature, most of which were to be found in monastic libraries. He discusses the new schools and scholarly circles that were formed to... More info
Women in revolutionary debate. Female novelists from Burney to Austen.
In the later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries novels were believed to have the power to shape and/or change behaviour, and, by implication, affect the political landscape of society on a large scale. The English response to the French Revolution can be traced through a reading of the nove... More info
The British Isles, volume 2: Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Guides to Dutch Atlas Maps II
Volume II in a series of pocket reference guides for the historic and antique map collector, map curator and enthousiast. The British Isles, volume 2 contains clear, short, no-nonsense yet academically valid information about all Dutch atlas maps (produced in the 16th and17th cent... More info
Keukenhof: van Keukenduin tot Lentetuin. De wordingsgeschiedenis van Internationale Bloemententoonstelling Keu...
In 1949 one of the icons of the Dutch identity was founded in the western part of Holland: Keukenhof, nowadays known as the most beautiful springgarden in the world, famous worldwide for its beautiful landscaping with bulbflowers as its main focus. This book describes the long and interesting histo... More info
Mapping Greece, 1420-1800: A history Maps in the Margarita Samourkas Collection
Mapping Greece is a richly illustrated history of the cartography of Greece during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, based on the Margarita Samourka Map Collection (one of the most important collections of its kind in private hands in Greece) that consists of 1,700 maps of Greece. Divide... More info
‘The Child is Father of the Man’: The Importance of Juvenilia in the Development of the Author
`The Child is Father of the Man` discusses the field of nineteenth-century Juvenilia. Specifically, the development of the child writer into the adult author, arguing for increased critical attention toward the early works of now famous writers. The introductory chapter reviews th... More info
The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem. The history of the Atlas and the making of the facsimile.
In 2011 we have completed one of our most prestigious projects; the publication of the facsimile of the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem bound in eight volumes . To celebrate this occasion we have published an accompanying publication with background information on the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem and the product... More info