Nijhoff in America.
American libraries began to be developed in the middle of the nineteenth century and were among the world's most prominent a century later. The remarkable history of the major libraries in North America, their European models and their strong and innovative leadership is reported here in more or les...
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Brill Academic Publishers
2013
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=88381032&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 88381032 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00149527 C4O jtl: Quaerendo issn: 00149527 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: 2013 vid: 43 iid: 1 pid: 639 pub: Brill Academic Publishers artinfo: ui: 88381032 10.1163/15700690-12341261 ppf: 1 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 13.7MB tig: atl: Nijhoff in America. aug: au: Edelman, Hendrik affil: Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA su: Nijhoff, Martinus, 1894-1953 Nijhoff, Wouter Brandt Corstius, Hugo Booksellers & bookselling Research libraries Collection development in libraries Libraries History Library acquisitions History of libraries Hague (Netherlands) Netherlands United States sug: subj: Hague (Netherlands) Netherlands United States Nijhoff, Martinus, 1894-1953 Nijhoff, Wouter Brandt Corstius, Hugo Booksellers & bookselling Research libraries Collection development in libraries Libraries History Library acquisitions History of libraries keyword: American research libraries collection development Dutch booksellers Nijhoff The Hague ab: American libraries began to be developed in the middle of the nineteenth century and were among the world's most prominent a century later. The remarkable history of the major libraries in North America, their European models and their strong and innovative leadership is reported here in more or less chronological sequence from the earliest efforts to about 1970, when the unprecedented growth came to an end. The building of the international library collections could not have been achieved without the enterprising efforts of many booksellers in England and on the European continent. Among those who made significant contributions were three booksellers from the Netherlands: Frederik Muller, Martinus Nijhoff and Swets & Zeitlinger. This article describes their role, but concentrates on Martinus Nijhoff, publisher and bookseller in The Hague, who had by far the longest successful tenure in supplying American libraries with European books and periodicals. Between 1853 and 1971, three generations of the Nijhoff family -- Martinus, Wouter and Wouter Pzn --, with their staff members, built one of the leading international publishing and bookselling houses in the Netherlands. Their legacy is permanently embedded in the collections of the great North American libraries. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Quaerendo is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Quaerendo holder: Brill Academic Publishers dt: @attributes: year: 2013 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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