Bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands from 1570 up to the 20th century, in nine volumes, each describing a coherent group of atlases
This latest part of the Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici series contains the description of the Galérie agréable du monde, published by Pieter van der Aa, 1728.
This work includes a review of the life and work of the Amsterdam dealer Frederick de Wit in maps, prints and art in the second half of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century and an overview of
This volume presents the four extant versions of Vida's mythological poem Scacchia Ludus, together with an Introduction and an English verse translation.
Before Amsterdam developed into Europe’s most important commercial hub in the seventeenth century, demanding and controlling manufacture of maps and sea-charts, a major School of Cartography already f
Ortelius' Theatrum, De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the Epitome, Caert-Thresoor and Atlas Minor, the Atlases of the XVII Provinces, and other atlases published in the Low Countries up to c. 1650. I
Descriptive and illustrated bibliography of the town atlases by Braun & Hogenberg, Blaeu, Janssonius, De Wit and other Dutch publishers. Acquisition of one volume is subscribing to the complete series
Cookbooks from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century are no longer of interest only to collectors and antiquarians. Food history is taught as an academic subject in an increasing number of universi
Aluminum has found its way into every facet of our lives: deodorants, sun lotions, vaccines or filtered drinking water. But what do we actually know about the side effects of our daily companions? The
This work is the second 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 of our foremost
