VOC. A bibliography of publications relating to the Dutch East India Company: 1602-1800. Edited by P. van der ...
At the height of its power and influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth century the VOC - acronym for the United Netherland East India Company -was the greatest commercial concern in the world. The scope of its activities extended from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan. In some aspects, the Baltic t... More info
Watermarks 1600-1650 found in the Zeeland Archives
With this work the authors are filling a gap which is existing on the research material of watermarks of the seventeenth century. The research for this book is based on the X-ray method developed by Jan van Aken, emiritus professor dental radiology of the University of Utrecht. This method guarentee... More info
Watermarks 1650-1700 found in the Zeeland Archives
The seventeenth century is an underrepresented period in the publications on watermarks. A growing demand in the fields of history and art history for exact dating of documents and artworks on seventeenth century paper was one of the main reasons for the authors to conduct research in this area.... More info
Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France, etc. in the XVII and XVIII centuries and their interconnecti...
The extensive introduction contains inter alia an alphabetical List of Dutch papermakers, a list of French paper-makers who worked for the Dutch market, and a list of British paper-makers and mills. At the end a survey of particulars concerning the watermarks in question. The corpus of the work is s... More info
Western Travellers in China. Discovering the Middle Kingdom.
This book accompanied the exhibition "Western Travellers in China" held at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, 28 October 2009-10 January 2010. For centuries, China has aroused considerable interest in the Western world. In this book a selection of 130 volumes from a large collection of trave... 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
Woorden van een gezond verstand. De invloed van de Verlichting op de in het Nederlands uitgegeven preken van 1...
The role of religion in Dutch Enlightenment is reconstructed here by analysing the 1.753 printed sermons in Dutch published between 1750 and 1800. These are extensively described in the second part of this study (pp. 445-701). The bibliography covers all major collections in the Netherlands and abro... More info
