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AMSTERDAM, Public Library -- Catalogus Bibliothecae publicae Amstelodamensis. Amsterdam: Caspar Commelinus, 1668.
4o (230 x 179 mm). Woodcut arms of Amsterdam on title. (Some minor marginal spotting and dampstaining.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard.
The third catalogue of the Amsterdam Public Library, founded in 1578, and which became the University Library in 1877. The exceedingly rare first catalogue was issued in 1612 and is only known in one copy; the second catalogue was published in 1622. All three catalogues were organized by shelf order of the books in the library beginning with Bibles. The postscript ends with a Latin poem by the Amsterdam poet Cornelis Plemp (d. 1638). Pollard & Ehrman, table XXX.
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The third catalogue of the Amsterdam Public Library, founded in 1578, and which became the University Library in 1877. The exceedingly rare first catalogue was issued in 1612 and is only known in one copy; the second catalogue was published in 1622. All three catalogues were organized by shelf order of the books in the library beginning with Bibles. The postscript ends with a Latin poem by the Amsterdam poet Cornelis Plemp (d. 1638). Pollard & Ehrman, table XXX.