Nordiskt slotts- och herrgårdssymposium 2018
Working in an 18th century library at an estate comes with its privileges. Last week we presented the project ‘The library at Leufstabruk’ at the No...
Working in an 18th century library at an estate comes with its privileges. Last week we presented the project ‘The library at Leufstabruk’ at the No...
Athens has been World Book Capital for just over three months. After the grand opening at the Acropolis Museum on April 23 you might think, or hope, that book e...
A report in the Amsterdamsche Courant of 5 November 1722 mentions a donation of books by the English Lord Carteret to the Academy of Uppsala. The question that ...
Historia Naturalis Brasiliae is the first scientific work on the natural history of Brasil, published in 1648. It was the authoritative text on the subject for ...
Just weeks after a book from the library of Constantijn Huygens was found in the library of Leufsta, another copy turns up in Sweden. This time in the collectio...
The Dutch Book Historical Society (NBV) held a 25th anniversary congress in Amsterdam Friday 1 June. At the end of an interesting and entertaining day the new Y...
A first edition of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was rediscovered in the library of the Dutch House of Representatives. This fundamental work in clas...
The Dutch House of Representatives published a video on the historical collection of the library. The headlines are obviously for the first edition of The ...
There is a rather curious little book on the history of queen Christiana in the Leufsta Library that has a handwritten marking ‘Constanter’ on the t...