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
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
Nip and the Chocolate: A Picture Letter from Beatrix Potter to Winifred Warne; April 14, 1906.
Introduction by Ivy Trent. In November 2004 the Cotsen Children`s Library at Princeton University became the home of Mr. Lloyd Cotsen`s extensive collection of Beatrix Potter manuscripts, original art, photographs, and related ephemera. To mark the occasion of this very special gift, the Cotsen Fami... 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
Otto Dorfner (1885-1955). Der Bucheinband ist zum Buch was das Kleid ist zum Menschen. La reliure est pour le ...
Eine Ausstellung des MDE. 5 April - 31 Mai 2003, Brussel.Une exposition de la MDE. 5 Avril - 31 Mai 2003, Bruxelles.
Exhibition catalogue. In German and French. 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
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
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
Writings on Architecture, civil and military, c. 1460 to 1640. A checklist of printed editions.
The list has about 280 author entries covering at least 1800 editions of more than 365 titles. Included are all architectural books known by the compilers that were written between 1460 and 1640 regardless of when they were first published. Dubious editions are identified, and "ghosts" avoided or d... More info