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Member: JanWillemNoldus

Library1,375 books — see library

Reviews10 reviews — see reviews

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TagsAcq.Ant.Amsterdam (322), Acq.Amsterdam (276), C (242), Painting (185), R (169), M (166), Architecture (158), W (138), 1970 (128) — see all tags

Groups15th Century Europe, 18th-19th Century Britain, A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Anglophiles, Antiquarian Books, Art History, Art is Life, Baker Street and Beyond, BBC Radio 3 Listeners — show all groups , Birds, Birding & Books, Books on Books, Combiners!, Dutch writing in English - An appreciation, En France, Everyman's Library, Folio Society devotees, French Connection, French literature, 19th & 20th century, Great Books of the Western World, Happy Heathens, Historical Biography, Historical Mysteries, History of the Book, I See Dead People['s Books], I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, INFP, Inklings, Language, Librarians who LibraryThing, LibraryThing en français, LibraryThing in het Nederlands, LibraryThing-ers Anonymous, Medieval Europe, Naturalists, Nederlandse literatuur en letterkunde, Nederlandstalige lezers, Nederlandstalige schrijvers, Non-Fiction Readers, Pantheists, Philosophy and Theory, Progressive & Liberal!, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Reading Globally, Science!, Spruitjes (Brussels sprouts), Tea!, The Chapel of the Abyss, The Great Gatsby, Themes in Literature, Victoriana

Favorite authorsDante Alighieri, Lou Andreas-Salome, Apuleius, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Honore de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, J.C. Bloem, Godfried Bomans, Jorge Luis Borges, P.J. Bouman, P.C. Boutens, Alfred Brehm, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Giordano Bruno, Jacob Burckhardt, Cd. Busken Huet, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, Joseph Campbell, Lewis Carroll, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Colette, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Louis Couperus, Sigrid Damm, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly, Lodewijk van Deyssel, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eduard Du Perron, Umberto Eco, Frederik van Eeden, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Desiderius Erasmus, Frans Erens, Euripides, Jean-Henri Fabre, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, E.M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, John Galsworthy, Guido Gezelle, Andre Gide, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Sir Ernst H. Gombrich, Herman Gorter, Remy de Gourmont, Ernesto Grassi, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Hermann Grimm, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Elie Heimans, Ernest Hemingway, Abel Hermant, Herodotus, Hermann Hesse, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victor Hugo, Johan Huizinga, Aldous Huxley, J. K. Huysmans, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, William James, Robinson Jeffers, Carl Gustav Jung, Immanuel Kant, John Keats, Soren Kierkegaard, Willem Kloos, Alain Rene Le Sage, C. S. Lewis, Alberto Manguel, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Eugène Marais, H. Marsman, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Andre Maurois, Moliere, Michel de Montaigne, Paul Morand, Desmond Morris, Harry Mulisch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Erwin Panofsky, Walter Pater, Iain Pears, Jacques Perk, Francesco Petrarca, Plato, Plotinus, Edgar Allan POE, Adolf Portmann, Alexandre Dumas père, Marcel Proust, Alexander Pushkin, Thomas De Quincey, Rainer Maria Rilke, A. Roland Holst, Jan Romein, Joseph Roth, Carl Sagan, George Sand, Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur van Schendel, Friedrich Schiller, Seneca, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sophocles, Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodor Storm, August Strindberg, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Aquinas, Saint Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Jac. P. Thijsse, J.R.R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Hermes Trismegistus, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Mark Twain, Paul Valery, Émile Verhaeren, Jules Verne, Leonardo da Vinci, Voltaire, Aby Warburg, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Stefan Zweig (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAnagram Bookshop, Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn, Athenaeum Boekhandel, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Fifth Ave, Barnes & Noble Main Store, Blackwell Charing Cross Road, Boekhandel Het Martyrium, Boekhandel Robert Premsela, Boekhandel van Rossum, Burgersdijk & Niermans, Compagnie, De Slegte - Amsterdam, De Slegte Brussel, De Slegte Den Haag, Editeurs Réunis, Facultas Dombuchhandlung am Stephansplatz, Feltrinelli Libri e Musica (Torre Argentina), Foyles, Librairie de Paris, Librairie del Duca, Librairie Delamain, Librairie du Musee du Louvre, Librairie Guillaume Budé, Librairie Renaissance, Libreria Francese di Roma, Libreria Herder, London Review Bookshop, Rizzoli Bookstore, Schottentor Buchhandlung, Selexyz Broese, Selexyz Scheltema - Koningsplein, Shakespeare & Company, The Dover Bookshop - London, The Folio Society, Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers (At Foyles), Van Stockum Boekverkopers, Van Stockum Boekverkopers, W.H. Smith

Favorite librariesÖsterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Bibliothèque des littératures policières, Bibliothèque Forney et fonds de la bibliothèque des Arts Graphiques, Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Site François-Mitterrand, Bodleian Library, British Library, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Központi Könyvtár, Centre de documentation sur les métiers du livre, Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Folger Shakespeare Library, Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Koninklijke Bibliotheek - Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Library of the University of Amsterdam, Museum Plantin-Moretus/Prentenkabinet, National Gallery of Art (US) Art Research Library, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Rijksmuseum Research Library, Smithsonian American Art & National Portrait Gallery Library, The Library of Congress, The Morgan Library & Museum, The Royal Society Library and Archives, Utrecht University Library, Warburg Institute Library

Other favoritesMuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum, The British Museum, Stadhuis Antwerpen, Franz Kafka Museum, Letterkundig Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Sherlock Holmes Museum, Maison de Victor Hugo (Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée)

About me I am an Art historian and philosopher who reads whenever he has nothing else to do. I adore practically anything (well, many things), except reading books on cooking, sport or trivia like popstars and TV celebrities .
Eclecticism is my style, in life, in thought, in taste: no single person or institution can pretend to the ultimate knowledge or wisdom, but all together we can approach the mystery of life, of beauty, of truth...

Je suis historien d'art et philosophe, lecteur vorace dans beaucoup de domaines (art, littérature, histoire, sciences, ...)Mes intérêts en matière de livres ne concernent pas beaucoup l'actualité (dernières parutions,bestsellers); un de mes grands plaisirs est de faire des trouvailles dans le rayon des auteurs oubliés.
Je suis eclectique en tout. Aucune personne ni institution possède la vérité, mais tous ensemble nous arrivons à soulever un petit bout du voile d'Isis...

Kunsthistoricus en filosoof, sinds lange jaren Nederlander in Parijs - een geweldige stad voor de boekenminnaar!
Ik heb bijna altijd wel een Nederlandstalig boek onder handen, maar lees nauwelijks recente Nederlandse (of andertalige) romans of verhalen. Waarom? Er zijn nog zoveel andere boeken te lezen!

***"Disce omnia, videbis postea nihil esse superfluum" (Hugo of St.Victor)***

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About my library My personal library contains nearly 11,000 books. A long time (several years?) will have passed before everything will be catalogued, especially because most of my books cannot be found on Amazon.com, LC or other sources. Nearly every item must be entered manually. I start with titles, authors and tags. More information about editions, covers,&c. will be added later, as will be a key to my rather expansive tagging system.
Finding tags,sharing one's books with others are terrific things. Cataloguing permits to find secret passages between books.
My idea is to stop enlarging my library at 11,111 books - maybe this is number fetichism, but you have to put your limits somewhere; why not there? Once I have 11,111 books, some books will have to leave when others arrive...

Actuellement ma bibliothèque compte presque 11.000 volumes (presque autant de titres)en 7 ou 8 langues différentes. Cataloguer tout cela va sans doute demander beaucoup de temps, d'autant plus qu'il s'agit surtout de livres "anciens", c'est à dire d'éditions d'époque(18e au 20e siècle). Je ne cherche pas d'exemplaires précieux (premières éditions, provenance,etc.)et ne suis pas investisseur, mais m'intéresse plutôt à des livres qui en tant qu'objet me transmettent (si possible)quelque chose du monde de leur auteur ou de leur sujet.
Je vais essayer de mettre la barre à 11.111 livres, beau nombre... Il y a un moment à partir duquel des livres doivent partir quand des nouveaux arrivent - ce sera ce moment-là! Mais le tri va être dûr...

Sinds ik in Parijs woon, zijn er natuurlijk veel Franse boeken bijgekomen. Ik heb echter toch nog heel wat Nederlandse boeken en ga die ook catalogiseren. Tenslotte dient een catalogus ook een getrouw beeld te geven van wat je in je bibliotheek hebt - alleen al voor jezelf.
Mijn voornemen is om vanaf 11111 titels mijn bibliotheek niet verder uit te breiden. Ondanks alles zijn er grenzen! Vanaf dan: nieuwe boeken erbij, andere weg (naar vrienden?) - maar niet blindelings natuurlijk.

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Real nameJan Willem Noldus

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Member sinceAug 10, 2007