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DE COSTER, Annie & Claude SORGELOOS (ed.)
Bibliophiles et reliures. Mélanges offerts à Michel Wittock Bruxelles, 2006. 21 x 29,7 cm. Cloth. 157 illustrations of which 35 in full colour. 520 pp. (Studia Bibliotheca Wittockiana, VI)
Festschrift honouring the collector, patron of arts and founder of the Bibliotheca Wittockiana. This volume contains a large collection of articles on bibliophily, book collectors, early and contemporary bindings, the Livre d'artiste and the Livre-objet. It could be seen as an excellent illustration of Michel Wittock's personal views on "bibliophily", which are clearly not limited to bookbindings. His interpretation of bibliophily is characterized by public presentations and research into all aspects of antiquarian and contemporary books, such as paper, typography, illustration, books in contemporary art and book objects; his genuine interest in these related disciplines providing the driving force
Related Subjects: Bibliophily - Bibliotheca Wittockiana - Book History - Bookhistory, Bindings - Bookhistory, Bookcollecting & Collectors

€ 318.00

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GROOT, E. de
The world of a seventeenth-century collector. The atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem 't Goy-Houten, HES & DE GRAAF Publishers, 2006. Large 8vo. Cloth. Richly illustrated. 395 pp
In The World of a Seventeenth-Century Collector, Erlend de Groot describes the life and works of the Dutch lawyer Laurens van der Hem (1621-1678) as the collector and composer of the famous Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem. He gives a unique insight in the relations of a collector and his decisions in collecting and composing his well-known 46 volumes copy of Blaeu's famous Atlas Major and placing the Atlas in its historical, cultural and artistic context.
De Groot describes the life and family of Van der Hem, followed by chapters about the prints and drawings and an historical survey. Furthermore the assembly of the atlas and the contents and arangements of the atlas are described. He completes his work with accounts of the history of collector's atlases in the Netherlands and the purpose and significance of the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem. The book is completed with a bibliography and indices of persons and of plates discussed in this work from the Atlas Blaeu-van der Hem.
Extend your series of the Catalogue of the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library. Illustrated and annotated catalogue, now with this additional 7th volume about the world of the collector Laurens van der Hem
978 90 6194 359 4
Related Subjects: 17th Century - Atlases - Book History - Books about Books - Cartography - Dutch - History of Cartography

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STAIKOS, Konstantinos Sp
The history of the Library in Western civilization. Volume III: From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion. The Byzantine World. The Influence of Christian Literature on the Book Trade and the Growth of Monastic Libraries in the East 't Goy, HES & DE GRAAF Publishers, 2007. 22,5 x 30 cm. Cloth with full colour dustjacket. Many illustrations in colour and black & white. XXXI, 572 pp
Co-publication. Sales Rights: worldwide except USA. Available in the USA from OAK KNOLL PRESS (ISBN 1584561149). This work is the third 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 scholars on library history, writing such books as this as well as works like "The Great Libraries," a classic in its field.
This third volume spans a period of more than a thousand years and covers an area stretching from Alexandria and Trebizond to Calabria and Sicily in the south of Italy. The author explores the end of the ancient world and the closure and destruction of its monumental libraries, and describes the formation, of the great monastic libraries, such as St. Catherine's on Mount Sinai, the Monastery of Studius in Constantinople, the group of monasteries on Mount Athos and the famous library in the Monastery of St. John on Patmos. Finally, he examines all the known palace, public, university and private libraries in the whole of the Byzantine Empire, and discusses the booktrade as well.

Order all five volumes of 'The history of the library in Western civilization' and get the Index volume for free!
978 90 6194 459 1
Related Subjects: Book History - History - History & Historiography - Libraries & Collections

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