Logica memorativa. Chartiludium logicae, sive totius dialecticae memoria.
Strassburg, 1509. Facsimile. With 53 woodcuts of playing cards in the text. Edition limited to 500 copies. Thomas Murner attempted to teach logic by means of playing cards. More info
Keukenhof: van Keukenduin tot Lentetuin. De wordingsgeschiedenis van Internationale Bloemententoonstelling Keu...
In 1949 one of the icons of the Dutch identity was founded in the western part of Holland: Keukenhof, nowadays known as the most beautiful springgarden in the world, famous worldwide for its beautiful landscaping with bulbflowers as its main focus. This book describes the long and interesting histo... More info
‘The Child is Father of the Man’: The Importance of Juvenilia in the Development of the Author
`The Child is Father of the Man` discusses the field of nineteenth-century Juvenilia. Specifically, the development of the child writer into the adult author, arguing for increased critical attention toward the early works of now famous writers. The introductory chapter reviews th... More info
Line, Shade and Shadow. The Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings.
As documents of the built environment, as source material for architectural historians and preservation architects, and as stunning works of art, architectural drawings serve a wide and diverse audience. This book explores the materials and techniques used in their fabrication while illustrating... More info
Practice Makes Perfect P. Cotsen-Princeton 1 and the Training of Scribes in Byzantine Egypt
This book by papyrologist Scott Bucking is about a 7th century Sahidic Coptic manuscript including a syllabary and simple text indicating its use for elementary instruction in a monastery. The text provides a papyrological description of the manuscript, with a text describing its historical and soci... 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
Van windhandel tot wereldhandel. Canon van de bloembollen.
Jubileumuitgave ter gelegenheid van het 150-jarig bestaan van de Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur. De bloembollensector in Nederland heeft een rijke geschiedenis. Onderdelen daarvan zijn door de jaren heen meer of minder uitgebreid beschreven. De `Canon van de bloembollen` g... More info
Little Book of Animals
Facsimile of an illustrated manuscript on birchbark and of a contemporary letter providing its translation by reverend Allan Salt. More info