Koeman`s Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. IV. Town Atlases.
Descriptive and illustrated bibliography of the town atlases by Braun & Hogenberg, Blaeu, Janssonius, De Wit and other Dutch publishers. This part of the series will also appear as a separate book, outside the series. More info
Printed Cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700: A Bibliography of Early Modern Culinary Literature
Co-publication. Sales Rights: Europe. Available in the USA from OAK KNOLL PRESS (ISBN 9781584562535). First edition. This is the first bibliography to list all known editions of printed cookbooks published in Europe before 1700. More than a hundred titles in at least 650 editions were printed in fo... More info
The Dartons. Publishers of Educational Aids, Pastimes & Juvenile Ephemera, 1787-1876.
“This is an important and fascinating work… Jill Shefrin already has a reputation for original research and meticulous scholarship. In this marvelous volume she has given us more, providing evidence for a previously unrecorded market in nineteenth-century teaching aids for both home education and sc... More info
The History of the Library in Western Civilization. Volume IV: The Medieval World in the West. From Cassiodoru...
Co-publication. Sales Rights: worldwide except USA. Available in the USA from OAK KNOLL PRESS (ISBN 9781584561811). This work is the fourth part in an important, five-volume series addressing the unique role libraries have played in building and preserving Western culture. Mr. Staikos has become one... More info
The Glory of the Art of Writing. The Calligraphic Work of Francesco Alunno of Ferrara.
"...though, I was struck by the variety and virtuosity of Alunno`s work. It became a yardstick in my mind by which to measure these characteristics in the work of his contemporaries. Actual manuscripts by Italian writing-masters of the sixteenth century are not common. Only one sheet definitely attr... More info
Printers’ and Publishers’ Marks in Books for the Greek World (1491-1821)
Co-publication. Sales Rights: worldwide except USA. Available in the USA from OAK KNOLL PRESS (ISBN 9781584562702). This book contains reproductions of the printers’ and publishers’ marks of all those – both Greeks and non-Greeks – who printed or published books for Greek readers from the dawn of t... More info
Kaitai Shinsho, the single most famous Japanese book of medicine & Geka Soden, an early very important manuscr...
A detailed description of the accounts of two very important medical works, the impact of the contents in Japan and their significance worldwide. This work reveals many never noticed details, facts and relations and emphasizes again the importance of bibliographic research. More info
Dibdin in Paris (1818)
This beautifull book gives an entertaining account of Dibdin’s stay in Paris during his bibliographical tour through France and Germany. Frans Janssen describes the bibliohiles’ visits to prominent representatives of the book world as Renouard, Brunet and Crapelet and their reactions to what he had ... 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
