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1460-1500

Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC)

The ISTC is a database produced by the British Library of titles of 15th century books in typeset. The database contains descriptions of incunables in the British Library and a large number of other libraries in the United Kingdom, as well as the central catalogues of incunables in the US, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands. The addition of items from Germany and France, but also from the rest of the world, is at an advanced stage.
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Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke
The Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke is a database of all fifteenth-century printing types. The database is compiled by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and can be used to research fifteenth-century books and their makers.
Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke

1540-1800

Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands


The Short Title Catalogue Netherlands is the Dutch retrospective bibliography for the period 1540-1800; also included are concise descriptions of Dutch (post-)incunabula.
The STCN-database contains more than 190,000 titles and over 500,000 copies of books published in the Netherlands (irrespective of the language) and of books in Dutch published abroad (with the exception of Belgium). The STCN has been compiled by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, based on important Dutch and foreign collections, including those of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek itself, the University Libraries of Amsterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, the Vrije Universiteit, Delft and Groningen, the British Library and the University of London Library, the City Libraries of Haarlem and Deventer, the The Hague City Archive, the Alkmaar Regional Archive et cetera. The STCN has been completed in July 2009. The freely available database offers scientists, students and other interested persons many advanced search options.
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1801-1831

Nederlandse bibliografie 1801-1831

Available in the Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus (NCC). The NCC contains the bibliographical data and locations of around 10 million books and 460,000 magazines in more than 400 libraries in the Netherlands. In order to be able to order books or photocopies of articles in journals or magazines, an ILL-account is required.
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1832-present

Brinkman's Cumulatieve Catalogus

Available in the Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus (NCC). The NCC contains the bibliographical data and locations of around 10 million books and 460,000 magazines in more than 400 libraries in the Netherlands. In order to be able to order books or photocopies of articles in journals or magazines, an ILL-account is required.
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The past 6 weeks

OutNow

In OutNow, the weeklist of the Nederlandse Bibliografie, new publications of Dutch publishers are listed weekly.
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