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HES & DE GRAAF publishes scholarly works on books, the history and production of books, and any topic
related to manuscripts or the printed book, as well as a wide variety of subjects including fine arts, cartography, travel
and navigation, and history of sciences. They also have rare reprints and classics on many well-known works.
The two 15th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography Winners
Catalogue of books
printed in the xvth
century now in the
British library
BMC, Part XI England
by Lotte Hellinga
The eleventh volume in the series
covers England and responds to the
special circumstances of early printing
in England, giving particular attention
to textual transmission by systematically
following each text from source or copy
to print whenever possible. This work includes descriptions of 323 copies
of books, representing 221 editions of items printed in England,
out of a total of 395 known to date, extensive introductions, and 52
full-size plates accompanying the descriptions of printing types. With
four full-color and numerous black-and-white illustrations of type and
watermarks.
2007, hardcover, 11.25 x 15.25 inches, 518 pages
ISBN 9789061943792, Order No. 103198, $1,985.00
covens & mortier
A Map Publishing House in
Amsterdam 1685–1866
by Marco van Egmond
This work is an extensive carto-bibliography
with maps published by Covens
& Mortier with 500 full-color images. It
includes a genealogy of Covens & Mortier,
estate inventories, catalogues of maps and
copperplates, and references to Covens &
Mortier in contemporary periodicals and
booksellers’ books.
2009, hardcover, dust jacket, 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 600 pages plus CD-ROM
ISBN 9789061942207 , Order No. 103234, $240.00
Dutch decorated
bookbinding in
the eighteenth
century
by Jan Storm van Leeuwen
This classic ranks among
the standard works on the
subject of bookbinding. Vol. I:
General historical introduction;
Noord Holland; Vol. IIa: Zuid
Holland; Vol. IIb: Zeeland, Province of Utrecht, Friesland, Province of
Groningen, Drente, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Brabant and Limburg;
Place unknown or irrelevant and Bindings in exceptional materials;
Vol. III: Catalogue of bindings in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the
Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum; List of Bindings in other collections;
Overview of Rubbings important for identification; Diagrams;
Books referred to with abbreviated titles; Index to the text; Index to
Catalogue and List. About 10,000 rubbings of tools and ornaments,
black and white illustrations, and a color section in each volume.
2006, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.25 x 11 inches, 4 volumes, 4000 pages
ISBN 9789061943693, Order No. 103679, $2,375.00
Sailing for the east
History and Catalogue of
Manuscript Charts of the Dutch
East India Company (VOC) on
Vellum 1602–1799
by Gunter Schilder and Hans Kok
This book presents a never-before
published overview of chart material used
on a VOC (Dutch East India Company)
ship. All navigation charts of the VOC in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
are drawn on vellum, and described and
analyzed in this illustrated carto-bibliography.
2010, hardcover, dust jacket, 9.5 x 12.5 inches, 750 pages
ISBN 9789061942603 , Order No. 104493, $250.00
Printing the Classical
Text
by Howard Jones
2004, hardcover, 6.25 x 9.75 inches, 238 pages
ISBN 9789061942795, Order No. 103669, $200.00
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Technique & Design in the
History of printing
by Frans A. Janssen
2004, hardcover, dust jacket, 7 x 9.75 inches, 380 pages
ISBN 9789061942894, Order No. 103672, $220.00
Globi Neerlandici
The Production of Globes in the Low
Countries
by P. van der Krogt
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1993, hardcover, dust jacket, 9.5 x 12.25 in., 648 pages
ISBN 9789061941385, Order No. 103608, $645.00