From Ptolemy to Stuyvesant from Antiquariaat Forum
By Michael Stillman
The Antiquariaat Forum has released a new catalogue entitled From Ptolemy to Stuyvesant. It is one of the more impressive book catalogues you will find, running 180 pages to describe and illustrate just 100 choice items. You will not find any recent material here. Some items qualify as incunabula, while the "new" material is from the 18th or 19th centuries. For those who collect seriously old and classic books, the Antiquariaat Forum is providing a wonderful selection. Here are a few of them.
We start at the beginning, Geographia, by Claudius Ptolemaeus, better kno...