The Ostend Story. Early Tales of the Great Siege and the mediating Role of Henrick van Haestens.
After the famous `Battle of Nieuwpoort` in West Flanders in 1600, another feat of arms was to follow in the same area: the Siege of Ostend, which lasted from 1601 to 1604. Maurits was, yet again, to play the leading role and, despite the fact that the outcome was less of a success for the young Repu... More info
Fac et Spera. Joannes Maire, Publisher, Printer and Bookseller in Leiden, 1603-1657. A Bibliography of his Pub...
During the seventeenth century, Holland`s Golden Age, printing and publishing became a flourishing industry. In Leiden, where the presence of a university contributed to that success, Joannes Maire built up, in the course of more than fifty years, a list of at least 527 titles, especially in the fie... More info
`Nel mezzo del cammin...`. A Dante Journey through 700 Years of Text and Images. Edited by Livio Ambrogio, Eng...
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana within the framework of Europalia 2003 Italia. The catalogue casts an eye over seven centuries of the `fortuna` of Dante as seen in editions of his work. Some of them are important, others are merely curious but they may yet be significa... More info
Little Rhymes by Hans Christian Andersen, with Little Photos by Harald Paetz.
This beautiful facsimile volume represents the first ever printing of Andersen`s Fotograferede Børnegrupper in English. This book is a collaboration between Andersen, who wrote the verse, and the famous early Danish photographer Harald Paetz. The illustrations in the book are albumen prints of posed... More info
The Children`s World of Learning 1480-1880. A collection of printed books, manuscripts, broadsides and prints ...
Set. Originally published as catalogue 100 of Antiquariaat FORUM in 10 issues between 1994-2002. With an extra issue with extensive indices. Prices of seperate issues on request (info@forumrarebooks.com). More info
Books on military architecture printed in Venice. An annotated catalogue.
In the great days of Italian fortification literature - the century from Valle’s first Venetian edition in 1524 to the appearance of Tensini in 1624 - Venice accounted for roughly as many titles as the rest of Europe together. Books on fortification were a natural for the enterprising printer-publis... More info
From radicals to survivors. Strasbourg`s religious nonconformists over two generations, 1525-1570.
This is the first extensive study of Strasbourg`s diverse religious nonconformists beyond 1543, and the first to explore their continuities and discontinuities over two generations. Based on vast archival records in Strasbourg and secondary sources, it moves beyond the political and theological emph... More info
Quelques notes de musique et d’amité... Partitions musicales dédicacées de César Franck à Pierre Boulez.
Exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 7 May-15 September 2002. More info
Repertorio de obras de autores españoles en bibliotecas holandesas hasta comienzos del siglo XVIII.
Con un apéndice de obras sobre América escritas por autores no españoles. This book is the first comprehensive overview to address questions like `Which Spanish books were available in the Northern Netherlands during the 17th century` and `Which titles were read in translation`. An bibliography of n... More info