About us
Founded in 1971, HES Publishers expanded in 2000 by the incorporation of the renowned DE GRAAF Publishers. Both houses were to continue as an entity, under the new name of HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV. We are publishers of scholarly works on books, on the history of books, on the history of their production and on any interesting topic related to manuscripts as well as the printed book. We also publish books on a wide variety of other subjects, such as Fine Arts, Cartography, Travel and Navigation, History of Sciences, Humanism and Neo-Latin Literature, Literary History |
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We have rare reprints and classics on all of the above topics, including numerous well-known standard works such as the * Belgica Typographica (E. Cockx-Indestege & G. Glorieux eds.; refered to in the scholarly literature as the BT) * P. Valkema Blouw's Typographia Batava (TB) * G. van Thienen's Incunabula in Dutch Libraries (IDL) and Incunabula printed in the Low Countries. A Census (ILC) * P. van Huisstede & J.P.J. van den Brandhorst's Dutch Printer's Devices * The standard work on the world-famous 'Utrecht Psalter': The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art (K. van der Horst, W. Noel & W.C.M. Wüstefeld, eds.) * A new publication on the cartography of Holland by D. Blonk & J. Blonk-van der Wijst: Hollandia Comitatus * A reproduction in 5 volumes of the famous Atlas-Blaeu - Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library by P. van de Krogt & E. de Groot * P. van der Krogt's completely new edition of Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici in 10 volumes * etc., etc.
Many of the new books are published in one or other of our series, such as the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica, Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Homo Ludens, Dutch Classics in History of Science, and Penman's Paradise (a series of Writing and Lettering Books in facsimile).
As publishers in our particular field, we maintain a search for well-written authorative manuscripts relative to our work, for publication. If you have, or know of such a manuscript or are in the process of writing one, do please get in touch with our Publication Department.
Here you can find our complete series.