The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)
The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)

Author: Alexander J. P. Raat

Publisher: Uitgeverij Verloren

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13: 9087041519

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Details Loten's personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem -- a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, cover early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic, the exotic Dutch East Indies, and cosmopolitan London in the latter part of the century.

Madam Britannia
Madam Britannia

Author: Emma Major

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0199699372

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Using Britannia as a central figure, this book explores the neglected relationship between women, church, and nation. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript, printed, and graphic material, Emma Major argues that Britannia became established as an emblem of nation from 1688 and gained in importance over the following century.

A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800
A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800

Author: Mary Pollard

Publisher: OUP/The Bibliographical Society of London

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 9780948170119

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This dictionary attempts in nearly 2,200 entries to cover all workers in the various branches of the Dublin book trade until the Act of Union in 1800. All grades of workers from apprentice to master, and papermakers, engravers, hawkers and other peripheral traders are considered, as well as the all-important printers and booksellers. Entries naturally vary from one or two lines to one or two pages in length. The aim is to illustrate the working life of each subject by reference to contemporary sources such as records of the stationer's Guild, state papers, imprints, newspaper advertisements, customers' accounts, etc, with documentation for each statement made. Entries will thus give practical clues to dating undated books, as well as provide a basis for further research into individual traders' work and the Dublin trade as a whole. Some account of the history and organization of the Dublin Guild of St Luke (cutlers, painter-stainers, and stationers) appears as introduction.