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Kunst in kaart. Decoratieve aspecten van de cartografie.  cover art

Kunst in kaart. Decoratieve aspecten van de cartografie.

De vervaardiging van rijk versierde kaarten bereikte in de zeventiende en de achttiende eeuw in de Nederlanden een hoogtepunt. Wie waren de kunstenaars die de versieringen ontwierpen? Bedachten zij zelf de decoraties of putten zijn hun voorbeelden uit bestaande grafiek? Waarom weten wij zo weinig ov... More info
Kölnische Künstler in alter und neuer Zeit. Johann Jacob Merlos neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken Kölnischer Künstler. Herausgegeben von Eduard Firmenich-Richartz unter Mitwirkung von Hermann Keussen.  cover art

Kölnische Künstler in alter und neuer Zeit. Johann Jacob Merlos neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Nachrichten von...

Valuable biographical dictionary of Cologne artists, incorporating oeuvre-catalogues, references, bibliographies, etc. Contains inter alia (col. 971-1099) the best oeuvre-catalogue of Anton Woensam von Worms. More info
L.`oeuvre de Pierre Lecuire.  La Nuit bleue dans tous ses habits. cover art

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
Le peintre graveur.  cover art

Le peintre graveur.

Small-size reprint of the 22 vols. of this famous standard work in reduced form: each page of the reprint containing four pages of the original. Vols. I-IV: Dutch (and Belgian) artists; V-XI: German artists; XII-XXI: Italian artists; XXII: Supplements. More info
Les artistes de Harlem. Notices historiques avec un précis sur la Gilde de St. Luc. Edition revue et augmentée.  cover art

Les artistes de Harlem. Notices historiques avec un précis sur la Gilde de St. Luc. Edition revue et augmentée...

Valuable biographies of Haarlem artists, based on archive-materials and supplying hundreds of new data. More info
Les Prémices de la Bande Dessinée ou le siècle d`avant Tintin. De voorlopers van het beeldverhaal of de eeuw vóór Kuifje. The seedbed of comic strip art. A century before Tintin. cover art

Les Prémices de la Bande Dessinée ou le siècle d`avant Tintin. De voorlopers van het beeldverhaal of de eeuw v...

In French, Dutch and English. Catalogue on occasion of the exhibition BD Comic Strip Brussels 2009. More info
Licht als leidraad. Leven en werk van Frits Lensvelt (1886-1945). Met een voorwoord van Frans Leidelmeijer  cover art

Licht als leidraad. Leven en werk van Frits Lensvelt (1886-1945). Met een voorwoord van Frans Leidelmeijer

Published on the occasion of two exhibitions (in Amsterdam and in Assen) on the life and works of the versatile and influential Dutch designer Frits Lensvelt. More info
Little Rhymes by Hans Christian Andersen, with Little Photos by Harald Paetz.  cover art

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
Marseilles, Genoa & Pisa: A Beatrix Potter Photograph Album: Representing a Pictorial Biography.  cover art

Marseilles, Genoa & Pisa: A Beatrix Potter Photograph Album: Representing a Pictorial Biography.

Introduction by Ivy Trent. This facsimile edition reproduces photographs, mostly attributed to Potter`s father, amateur photographer Rupert Potter, in an arrangement telling the story of her life. The photographs range from studio photographs of Beatrix Potter as a baby and toddler, to one taken in ... More info
Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography: John Spilsbury and Early Dissected Puzzles.  cover art

Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography: John Spilsbu...

HARDCOVER VERSION. Also available in softcover version. John Spilsbury, who styled himself an "Engraver and Map Dissector in Wood, in Order to Facilitate the Teaching of Geography," is credited with the invention of "dissected maps"•hand-colored maps, printed from copper plates, which were mounted o... More info
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