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Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century.  cover art

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
Dutch Printer`s Devices 15th - 17th century. A Catalogue. With CD-Rom.  cover art

Dutch Printer`s Devices 15th - 17th century. A Catalogue. With CD-Rom.

An indispensable source of information for bibliographers and historians of mentality and visual culture. Contains inter alia a massive index of iconography, systematically arranged according to ICONCLASS classification schedules, offering some 20,000 references. In 3 volumes. More info
Dutch-American Bibliography 1693-1794. A descriptive Catalog of Dutch-language Books, Pamphlets and Almanacs printed in America.  cover art

Dutch-American Bibliography 1693-1794. A descriptive Catalog of Dutch-language Books, Pamphlets and Almanacs p...

100 entries, extensively described. The Introduction deals a.o. with Dutch- American history, language and religion; the printers; and bibliographical problems. More info
Duytsche exemplaren van allerhande gheschriften.   cover art

Duytsche exemplaren van allerhande gheschriften.

Haarlem, 1620. (With:) Thresor literaire … Haarlem, 1621. (And: ) The third part of Duijtscher ende Franscher scholen exemplaer-boek. (Haarlem, 1622). More info
Eleven catalogues by Reinier Leers 1692-1709.  cover art

Eleven catalogues by Reinier Leers 1692-1709.

With an introduction and indexes by H.H.M. van Lieshout and O.S. Lankhorst. More info
Exercitatio alphabetica nova et utilissima, variis expressa linguis et characteribus, raris ornamentis, umbris & recessibus, picturae architecturaeque, speciosa.  cover art

Exercitatio alphabetica nova et utilissima, variis expressa linguis et characteribus, raris ornamentis, umbris...

Antwerp, 1569. Facsimile, 1968. Edition limited to 300 handnumbered copies. Celebrated writing-book published by Christopher Plantin. More info
Fac et Spera. Joannes Maire, Publisher, Printer and Bookseller in Leiden, 1603-1657. A Bibliography of his Publications.  cover art

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
Fine Bookbindings from the National Library of Malta and the Magistral Palace, Library and Archives, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Rome. With an introduction by Michel Wittock.  cover art

Fine Bookbindings from the National Library of Malta and the Magistral Palace, Library and Archives, Sovereign...

This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition `Fine Bookbindings` held at Fort St Angelo, Birgu, Malta, 5th November-5th December, 1999. More info
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