[Portraits] Collection of approx. 150 portraits

Ca. 15th-20th cent. Various techniques (incl. a few mezzotints, photogr. and reproductions) and sizes.

Incl. a.o.: a woodcut portrait of Seneca in his bath from Hartmann Schedel, Weltchronik (1493); portraits and documentation on Spinoza, incl. old photogr. of his statue in The Hague and the house he lived in Rijnsburg; a fine mezzotint portrait of Iacobus Thomasius by Ioh. Iac. Haid; a mezzotint portrait of Balthasar Bekker by P. Schenk; fine 16th cent. engr. portraits of Caspar Schwenckfeldius and Patrus Ramus; an engr. portrait of Iacobus Faber by Hendrik Hondius (w. text quire); and portraits of Erasmus, Hugo de Groot, Hume, Leibnitz, John Locke, Montesquieu, Newton, Pufendorf, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Socrates, Plato, Vossius and Xenocrates. (total approx. 150)