Old & Rare Books, Prints, Manuscripts & Documents from the  Low Countries

Geschiedenis van het antiquariaat van der Steur, in het Nederlands

The history of Antiquariaat A.G. van der Steur goes back to 1974. In that year 1974 we bought the stock of Gerard Halwasse in The Hague. Halwasse was the last of the private genealogical/heraldic bureaus annex antiquarian bookshops in the Netherlands with a large stock of books, prints, pamflets, periodicals, off-prints, manuscripts, etc. about Dutch history and particular about Dutch genealogy and heraldry.

Between 1975 and 1988 we worked from our private house with stencilled catalogues and one or two bookfairs a year. In those years we specialised more and more in books before ca. 1800 and in old master prints by Dutch artists.
In 1989 we  started an open shop on the first, second and third floor of Kruisstraat 3 at Haarlem, a 3 minute walk from the station.

The main fields  in our shop are:

Books: Dutch history, genealogy, old and rare books, Dutch literature 1700-1880 , biography, topography, books on books, periodicals on these fields, etc.

Prints: Old master prints, portrait prints, prints of historical events, topography of The Netherlands and other countries, Dutch popular prints.

Manuscripts: letters, documents, alba, genealogies, diaries, poems, etc. concerning Dutch persons, families, towns and villages.

Some of these specialities are described in the 31 catalogues which we published in the past years or on our website.  

Recent Catalogues

Catalogue 28, GELEGENHEIDSGEDICHTEN (DUTCH OCCASIONAL POETRY).

More than 2200 poems on private persons (marriage, death, jubilees, etc.) from the 17th till the 20th century, with full descriptions and a long introduction on this kind of poetry. 448 pages and ca. 30 illustrations, Price € 7,50.

On occasion of the fair in April 2006 we published a new catalogue:

More than 2100 items on 520 pages, lavishly illustrated. Travel accounts from the 16th century till the present day; Tourist-guides for towns, villages and regions of the Netherlands from ca. 1880 - ca. 1930; Tourist-maps from the 17th century till present day. In the descriptions of the travel accounts lots of information is given which towns and villages are visited. Also a lot of information on the illustrations in the described books.

Price €10,-

Catalogue 31, PREKEN EN LEERREDENEN (SERMONS)

More than 700 printed sermons from the 17th till the 20th century.

Price € 2,50

In 2007 volume III of Catalogue 25 appeared:

Nederlandse literatuur en lectuur gedrukt tussen 1700 en ca. 1880 (Dutch literature 1700 – ca. 1880), auteurs P tm Z.

Together with the volumes I and II from this catalogue, over 4000 titles are fully described and often illustrated. Not only books by well known Dutch authors but also works by minor poets, periodicals, pamphlets, etc. The three volumes from catalogue 25, together ca. 1300 pages, are available for € 15,-.

The text from all catalogues is also available on our website and via the Antiqbook and ILAB sites, but the printed catalogues contain introductions and illustrations.

Please mention which catalogue you want to order.

Link naar: 'De Geschiedenis van het antiquariaat Ab van der Steur', in het Nederlands.