1600 | Who is who: Scholars
La Rochelle
Poitiers
Medical Illustrations
Lusigny-sur-Barse (abbaye de La Rivour)
The Archives of the late Paul Valkema Blouw
In 2017 the complete collection of annotated photocopies, collected by Paul Blouw for his personal use during his long career as an independent scholar, will be published as a companion to his Collected Works: his Essays and his magnum opus Typographia Batava – the most important publications on printing in the Low Countries in the 16th century.
Many if not most 16th century Dutch books and pamphlets were published without the name of the printer or publisher. Blouw spent more than 30 years to trace all of them. To be able to do this – in pre-computer days – he build an archive of typographical material, almost all of them annotated. It contains more than 15.000 photocopies of pages of rare books.
Although his monumental bibliography will probably never be superseded, he loved his many articles more, about writers such as Hendrick Niclaes, Menno Simonsz and their printers.
Nicolaes Biestkens the Younger
Topography
The Netherlands
Deliciae Batavicae. Leiden [17th century]
Matthijs Pool. Plusieurs vues et perspectives de la fameuse Riviere de Buyten-Amstel. Amsterdam [18th century]
Carel Allard. De luister van Amsteldam. Amsterdam [1644]
Afbeeldinge van de verscheyde vergrootinge van Amsterdam met der zelver voornaamste gebouwen [Amsterdam 1662]
Olfert Dapper. Historische beschryving van Amsterdam. Amsterdam 1663
Thooneel der steden en sterckten van t’ Vereenight Nederland Antwerpen [1679]
Caspar Commelin. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam. Amsterdam 1693
La celebre ville d’Amsterdam. Leiden ca 1700-1708
Het zegepralent Kennemerland. Amsterdam [ca 1725]
De zegepraalende Vecht. Amsterdam 1729
Abraham Rademaker. Spiegel van Amsterdams zomervreugd. Amsterdam 1730
Abraham Rademaker. Hollands Arcadia of de vermaarde rivier den Amstel. Amsterdam 1730
Pierre Fouquet. 103 afbeeldingen van de wijd vermaarde koopstad Amsterdam. Amsterdam 1774
Europe
Laurens Jacobs Antiquae Urbis Splendor. Rome 1612
Francois Perrier. Icones et segmenta … quae Roma adhuc extant. Rome 1645
Petrus Sanctius Bartolius. Veterum sepulcra seu Mausolea Romanorum et Etruscorum. Leiden 1728
Del Museo Capitolino Tomo 1-3. Rome 1741
Kunstkabinet, besluitende hondert der allerberoemste antique stantbeelden staende binnen Rome. Den Haag 1737
The World
Beschryvinge vande overtreffelijcke … zee-vaerdt van … Thomas Candish. Amsterdam 1598
Gerard de Veer. Diarium Nauticum seu Trium navigationum. Amsterdam 1598
Eigentliche und warhafftige beschreibung … durch Olivier von Nort. Amsterdam 1602
Newe Schiffart … so Olivier von Nort … gethan … hat. Frankfurt am Main 1602
Warhafftige historische Beschreibung des Konigreichs Guinea. Frankfurt am Main. 1603
Miroir Oost & West-Indical … navigations … par George de Spilbergen … L’autre par Jacob le Maire. Amsterdam 1621
Athanasius Kircher. China monumentis. Amsterdam 1667
Eduward Meltons … Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardige Zee- en Landreizen. Amsterdam 1681
J.B. Tavernier. De zes reizen … Tweede deel van d’Indiën. Amsterdam 1682
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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