New Project: Rijksboeken
Thursday 1 October 2020 marked the beginning of the project Rijksboeken. Over the next three months I will research various book collections of the Rijksmuseum,...
Tag: Material evidence
First results from the project ‘The Library of Leufstabruk’
Autumn has arrived at Leufstabruk. That means a colorful scenery, winds from the north and a library that becomes to cold to work in. In May I wrote about my Fi...
Material evidence of a donation to Uppsala University in 1722
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 copy census: final call (Updated)
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 ...