Early Dutch Books Online

Early Dutch Books Online gives full-text access to more than 2 million pages in 10,000 books from the Dutch-speaking region from the period 1781-1800.

The project is a collaboration between the Royal Library of the Netherlands and the university libraries of Amsterdam and Leiden. Books from the Special Collections of these libraries have been digitized and made available on word level via this website.

Selection

For Early Dutch Books Online a selection was made of old books from the period 1781 to 1800. This selection has been based on the content and practical criteria. For example, books printed in ....

Collection highlights

Signalling flags on board the Dutch fleet

'Abandonment' of Philip II commemorated after two hundred years

Kort begrip der waereld-historie voor de jeugd

Links

Europa	EEBO - Early English Books Online Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 Early European Books Array of printed sources from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. ECCO - Eighteen Century Collections Online Online library of over 136,000 titles published between 1701 and 1800, and printed in English-speaking countries, or countries under British colonial rule. Deutsches Textarchiv Digitised German full-texts from 1650 - 1900 De British Library: Treasures in full. Shakespeare in quartos 107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the 1642 theatre closures
USA	Million Book Collection A free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books Online Text Collections in Western European Literature Overview of online literary text collections from Western Europa
Historical background	Working group 18th century Group aiming to stimultate research about all aspects of 18th century history in Belgium and the Netherlands.