Author: CHARITÉ Dr. J. - Prof. I. SCHÖFFER ( editors ) :
Title: Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. Volume I ( - Volume VI) ( all published ) .
Description: .: 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 1979 - 2008, 6 vols. large in-8°, ca. 500 pp per volume, uniform publisher's brown cloth with printed dustwrapper. Fine set allthough the wrappers of the first 4 volumes are discoloured. This publication is the official biographical dictionary of the Netherlands, describing the lives of eminent people born or having lived in the Netherlands. It is as such a continuation of the 19th century biography by '' Van der Aa '' and the 20th century '' Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek - NNBW ''. This last publication described only persons which had died before 1932. This new biographical dictionary continues with people which lived through the 20th century. Text in Dutch. Boek in het Nederlands. .

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