Dear colleagues,

Some 3400 images of 17th and 18th century prints published in town books have been added to the image database Stedenatlassen of the Amsterdam University Library. All town books are part of the special collections and printed only several hundreds of meters from the library by illustrious Dutch publishers like Joan Blaeu, Johannes Janssonius, Frederick de Wit, Isaak Tirion and Carel Allard.

Images can only be found using the overall topographical index, producing all images of one place in all town books together, or through the index of each town book. So you may choose to take the overall index 'Index alle atlassen' or have a look at the overview of the town books included in : 'Overzicht stedenatlassen'. Multi-volume atlases show the step 'toon delen' first, presenting the individual volumes. Individual volumes always have two options 'index' or 'blader'. 'Index' presents the topographical index to this volume, and 'blader' is the browse option, presenting the thumbnails of the complete contents (including texts!) from cover to cover.

Although the site is in Dutch, the Amsterdam University Library has tried to make the geographical names as 'international' as possible. Any remarks can be sent to Jan Werner ([log in to unmask]) curator of the Maps and Atlases department.

With kind regards

Martien Versteeg

URL: http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/kaartencollectie >> the town atlases section is presented by clicking on 'Stedenatlassen' in the menu on the left