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
L.`oeuvre de Pierre Lecuire. La Nuit bleue dans tous ses habits.
Bibliotheca Wittockiana expose les Livres de Pierre Lecuire. L`oeuvre, original dans sa conception, rare dans sa réalisation, et que son créataur lui même cosidère comme achevé, est l`ultime manifestation d`un âge d`or du livre illustré. More info
The world of a seventeenth-century collector. The atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem
In The World of a Seventeenth-Century Collector, Erlend de Groot describes the life and works of the Dutch lawyer Laurens van der Hem (1621-1678) as the collector and composer of the famous Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem. He gives a unique insight in the relations of a collector and his decisions in... More info
Frisia Dominium. Kaarten van de provincie Friesland tot 1850. Geschiedenis en cartobibliografie
Frisia Dominium is the fourth volume in the Utrechtse Historisch-Cartografische Studies, a series on the history of cartography. This richly illustrated work contains the first complete overview of all printed maps of the Dutch province of Friesland from the period between 1545 and 1850. More info
Bibliophiles et reliures. Mélanges offerts à Michel Wittock
Festschrift honouring the collector, patron of arts and founder of the Bibliotheca Wittockiana. This volume contains a large collection of articles on bibliophily, book collectors, early and contemporary bindings, the Livre d`artiste and the Livre-objet. It could be seen as an excellent illustration... More info
Le Rayonnement des Moretus
Exhibition catalogue of the Bibliotheca Wittockiana in Brussels, containing extensive descriptions of 125 books printed between 1591 and 1837 by the famous Antwerp printer`s family Moretus, who took over after Christopher Plantin`s death in 1589. More info
Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century.
Awarded with the 15th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography 2010. This classic can be ranked among the well-known international standard works on the subject of bookbinding. The author, Dr. Jan Storm van Leeuwen, gives in this work an elaborate general historical introduction to his subject... More info
Readers in the Cotsen Children`s Library
HARDCOVER. Also available in paper version. Introductions by Andrea Immel. This special, lavishly illustrated volume was published to celebrate the 75th birthday of Mr. Lloyd E. Cotsen, the collector responsible for the library of over 100,000 books, manuscripts, drawings, educational toys, and prin... More info
Sacred Arts and City Life. The glory of medieval Novgorod
This catalogue, accompanying a 2005/2006 exhibition at the Walters drawn from the collections of the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, and the Novgorod State Museum, features nearly 300 objects, including 35 icons, that trace the material and artistic culture of the city of Novgorod from the ... More info