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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.
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Title

 `De advocaat'and `de dokter', from Jan and Casper Luiken, "Spiegel van het menselyk bedryf", Amsterdam, 1749


Creator

 Luiken, Jan (illustrator), Luiken, Kasper (illustrator), Roman, Jan (uitgever/publisher)


Year

 1749


Type

 illustratie, illustration


Measurements

 8,5 x 7.3 cm.


Related term

 lezen, vakbibliotheken


Period

 18e eeuw


Classification

 K: Maatschappelijke aspecten van boekproductie en -verspreiding


Content

 ` Professional' readers like doctors and lawyers usually had an extensive library of their own. The first picture shows a doctor with a herbal, in which e.g. the medicinal operation of plants is described. The second picture shows a lawyer. To the professional literature of lawyers belonged treatises on Roman law, codes of law such as the Corpus juris, and local decrees.


Original

 Luiken, Jan en Luiken, Kasper - Spiegel van het menselyk bedryf, vertoonende honderd verscheiden ambachten, konstig afgebeeld, en met Godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen verrykt. - Amsterdam: J. Roman de jonge, 1749, p. 179 en 183


available in

 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 192 B 16


@description

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek


@reproduction

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek