1. Introduction 1
2. Historical Background 3
2.1 The Royal Academy 3
2.2 A Short History of Libraries in the Southern Netherlands 5
2.3 Unrest in Brabant 9
2.4 The French Move In 10
2.5 The Dutch Take Over 11
2.6 The Birth of a Belgian Royal Library 13
2.7 The Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague 13
3. Gérard the Bibliophile 16
4. Book Collectors and Their Collections in the Netherlands from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 18
4.1 A Seventeenth-Century Collector: Laurens van der Hem 21
4.2 Collecting in the Eighteenth Century 26
4.3 Collecting in the Nineteenth Century 28
4.4 Collecting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Collection of Gérard
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5. Gérard’s Collection of Prints and Maps 31
5.1 KB Shelf-Mark 1705 a 21 34 5.2 KB Shelf-Mark 374 A 20 39 5.3 KB Shelf-Mark 374 A 21 40 5.4 KB Shelf-Mark 374 A 22 43 5.5 KB Shelf-Mark 374 A 25 43 5.6 KB Shelf-Mark 591 K 33 47 5.7 KB Shelf-Mark 3101 C 4 49 5.8 KB Shelf-Mark 344 G 19 52 6. Conclusion 55 7. Bibliography 58
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