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Background story of the world map by Mercator, published by Lafreri, ca. 1564.

Background story of the VOC map of the Atlantic Ocean by Isaak de Graaf.

Background story of the city map of Utrecht by Specht, second edition, ca. 1740.

The well-known engraver and silversmith Adam van Vianen (ca. 1569-1627) published this beautiful city plan in 1598.

Background story of the catalogue of maps by Beekman.

Background story of the Italian city books by Blaeu.

Background story on the digitisation and online availability of the prewar editions of the Bosatlas (1877-1939).

Background story of the map of the Merwede by N. Cruquius, 1729-1730.

Background story of a reused VOC map.

Background story of the 'Caarte vanden Slaperdijk' by Van Broekhuysen, 1705 (edition from ca. 1800)

De Handleiding tot de inlandsche schaapsteelt (1835-1836) by Alexander Numan is the first Dutch manual on sheep farming.

Den Blom-hof is a Dutch edition of the 17th-century Hortus Floridus.

The Exoticorum libri decem (1605) by Adriaen van de Venne may also contain illustrations of the dodo by Carolus Clusius.

A medical textbook from 1494, written by Giovanni Matteo Ferrari de Grado, in which he reflects on the work of a famous Persian-Arabic doctor.

An 18th-century work on criminal law reform.

Description of the lives of Franciscus of Assisi and Clara of Assisi, written by Thomas van Celano and printed in Leiden in 1504 by Jan Seversz

The Freeska Landriucht (or (Oude) Druk)) is the first book to be printed in the Frisian language. Available at the Special Collections.

Sinnepoppen, the most famous emblem collection from the Dutch Golden Age, by Roemer Visscher was published by Willem Jansz. Blaeu. Available at the Special Collections.

De Recensent voor Vrouwen is one of the very few 18th century Dutch journals for a female audience.

A late medieval book with descriptions and illustrations of hundreds of plants, animals, stones and other natural phenomena and their medicinal effects.