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Title
 Bookshops at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, c. 1660 (detail)

Creator
 Zesen, Ph. von (auteur/author), Schut, P.H. (illustrator), Nosche, J. (drukker/printer)

Year
 1664

Type
 prent, print

Measurements
 afmetingen onbekend

Related term
 boekhandels, boekhandelaars, uithangborden

Period
 17e eeuw

Classification
 G: Boekhandel en uitgeverij

Content
 On the right at the corner under the tower of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (at the beginning of what is now the Rokin) was the bookshop of Abraham Wolfgang, left of the gate that of the widow of Johannes Colom. Their signs can just be seen. The text on the sign of the widow Colom reads 'In de Vurige Colom' and there is probably a wolf depicted on that of Wolfgang.

Original
 Zesen. Ph. von. - Filips von Zesen Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam [...], Amsterdam: Joachim Nosche, 1664, t.o. p. 232.

@description
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek

@reproduction
 Amsterdam Bibliotheek KVB Universiteitsbibliotheek UVA