Theatrum Orbis Librorum : : Liber amicorum Presented to Nico Israel on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday / / edited by T. Croiset van Uchelen, K. van der Horst, G. Schilder.

• Superior document: European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000
• TeilnehmendeR: Horst, K. van der,; Schilder, G.,; Uchelen, T. Croiset van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1989.; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 1989
• Language: English
• Series: European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (530 pages) :; illustrations.

With contributions on geography, travel, rare books, booktrade, collectors and libraries by C. Koeman, G. Schilder, R. Breugelmans, K. van der Horst, F.A. Janssen, C. Reedijk, J. Storm van Leeuwen, E. Braches, E. Cockx-Indestege, I.H. van Eeghen, H. de la Fontaine Verwey, L. Hellinga-Querido, P.F.J. Obbema, B. van Selm, a.o

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Ton Croiset van Uchelen , Koert van der Horst , and Günter Schilder -- Foreword / Sebastiaan S. Hesselink -- Introduction / Ton Croiset van Uchelen , Koert van der Horst , and Günter Schilder -- Notes on the History of Map Projections / C. Broekema -- The Making of Atlantes Neerlandici / Cor Koeman -- Ces Hollandaises Habillées à Paris ou L'exploitation de la Cartographie Hollandaise par les Éditeurs Parisiens au XVIIe Siècle / Louis Loeb-Larocque -- Nico Israel, Ernst Crone and Pedro de Medina's De Zeevaert oft Conste van ter Zee te Varen / Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns -- Zaddiq's Canaan / Kenneth Nebenzahl -- Samuel Purchas, Spokesman for Empire / John Parker -- The Editions of the Atlas Minor until 1628 / Adriaan Plak -- The Chart of Europe in Four Sheets of 1589 by Lucas Jansz Waghenaer / Günter Schilder -- ‘Opera Mundi': Emery Molyneux, Jodocus Hondius and the First English Globes / Helen Wallis -- The van Berckenrode-Visscher Map of Holland: A Wallmap Recently Acquired by Amsterdam University Library / Jan W.H. Werner -- Der Große Kurfürst und die Niederlande; Kartographische Zeugnisse und Entwicklungen / Lothar Zögner -- Adriaan Anthonisz and the Gregorian Calendar / R. Breugelmans and E. Dekker -- Willem Silvius as Writing-Master / Ton Croiset van Uchelen -- Theodorus Janssonius ab Almeloveen (1657–1712); Life, Writings, Bibliographical Activities / Bob de Graaf -- The Long Arm of Coincidence: The Missing Initials of the Zwolle Bible / Koert van der Horst -- A Propos de l'Édition Originale (?) du Second Enfer d'Etienne Dolet / André Jammes -- Dutch Translations of the Corpus Hermeticum / Frans A. Janssen -- A Best-Seller Abroad: The Continental Editions of John Owen / P.N. Poole-Wilson -- The Story of a Fallacy: Erasmus's Share in the First Printed Edition in Greek of Ptolemy's Geography (Basel 1533) / C. Reedijk -- The Well-Shirted Bookbinding. On Chemise Bindings and Hülleneinbände / Jan Storm van Leeuwen -- La Reliure en Brabant au XVe et XVIe Siècle / Fl. Tulkens -- Nicolaes Biestkens van Diest, in Duplo , 1558–83 / Paul Valkema Blouw -- More than a Pretty Picture / Sape van der Woude -- Libraries — Book Collectors — Antiquarian Booksellers / Hans Bagger -- Lord Peter Wimsey as a Book-Lover / Ernst Braches -- Books Printed in the Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries from the Arenberg Collection, Now in the Royal Library of Belgium / Elly Cockx-Indestege -- M.B.B. Nijkerk, Book Collector / Cees van Dijk -- The Printing-House of Dr Joan Blaeu behind the New Church / Isabella H. van Eeghen -- Pieter van Damme, the First Dutch Antiquarian Bookseller / Herman de la Fontaine Verwey -- Lord Chesterfield's Characters / Colin Franklin -- Some Books Sold at Public Auction in 1429 / Lotte Hellinga-Querido -- A Bouquet of Bookish Emblems / John Landwehr -- Nico Israel and the Folger Library; One-Third of a Century / Elizabeth Niemyer -- Middle-Dutch Manuscripts in Leiden: Observations on Some Acquisitions of the Last Sixty Years / Pieter F.J. Obbema -- Brewster, Rostenberg and Stern / Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern -- The Auction Catalogue of Frans Koerten's Books (1668) / Bert van Selm -- Mr Israel and Mr Elte / Warren D. Starr -- On Trial / Lord Wardington -- Back Matter -- Index of Personal Names / Ton Croiset van Uchelen , Koert van der Horst , and Günter Schilder -- List of Contributors / Ton Croiset van Uchelen , Koert van der Horst , and Günter Schilder -- Tabula Gratulatoria / Ton Croiset van Uchelen , Koert van der Horst , and Günter Schilder.