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‘Wealth of Nations for a few bucks’

Posted on 06/01/2022

The first edition of the Wealth of Nations that made the headlines in the Old Library of the House of Representatives in 2018 turns out to have been the bargain...

Fagel Videos: Traces of the family in The Hague

Posted on 13/07/2021

The Library of Trinity College and the KB National Library of the Netherlands are working together to open up the Fagel Collection. As a part of the project, we...

Five rare pamphlets from the Library of the House of Representatives

Posted on 19/12/2020

The Library of the House of Representatives in the Hague is a historical reference collection that has been used by generations of Dutch parliamentarians. One o...

Trottoirmonster

Five Characteristic Political Cartoons from the House of Representatives

Posted on 15/12/2020

The collection of the Dutch House of Representatives has approximately 5,000 political cartoons stored on its shelves. It is a part of a collection that has har...

Dedication to Hendrik Fagel in Bachienne's Kerkelyke Geographie

Fagel Fine Bindings (3): Dedications

Posted on 15/04/2019

Several fine bindings in the collection are the result of a classical artist-patron relationship. The Fagels were high-placed government officials and had the n...

Fagel Fine Bindings (2): Political Power

Posted on 13/04/2019

The fine bindings in the Fagel collection make up only a small part of the library. Some of the fine bindings in the Fagel Collection at Trinity College Library...

Commelin and Breyne

Fagel Fine Bindings (1): Natural History

Posted on 10/04/2019

Most books in the Fagel Collection are bound in simple vellum, the title neatly written on the spine, without any gold-tooling or other forms of decoration. The...

A New Year’s Salute from the Amsterdam Lamplighters’ Guild

Posted on 27/03/2019

A printed New Year's wish from the Amsterdam Lamplighters' Guild for the year 1695 recently turned up at Trinity College Library

A brief history of Dutch research in the Fagel collection

Posted on 20/03/2019

Trinity College Library has been visited by Dutch scholars for a century. What did they find in the Fagel collection and how can we build on that?

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