Note 904 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

Mr. Muller pays a warm tribute to Asher and his Essay in his Catalogue (1872), no. 1,052. “I always believed this book,” he says, “to be a striking example of what intuition and discernment, combined with great zeal, can do.” (Cf. Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., p. xxxvi.) Asher’s book may be supplemented by P. A. Tiele’s Bibliotheek van Nederlandsche pamfletten, 1858-1861, based on Muller’s collection, which gives 9,668 Dutch pamphlets published 1482-1702, adding to Asher’s enumeration many others relating to America; and again the Dutch-American student will find further help from J. K. van der Wulf’s Catalogus van de Tractaten in de bibliotheek van Isaac Meulman, Amsterdam, 1866-1868, three vols.,—a privately printed book in a collection now in the library of the University of Gand. (Muller’s Catalogue [1872], nos. 108, 114; [1877] nos. 3,202, 3,566.) These two works show 19,077 pamphlets published in the United Provinces from 1500 to 1713.