Fictions, Non-Fictions, fine Arts:
contents 12th - early 20th Centuries
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In Libraries, Archives and Museums, where artefacts and documents are preserved within collections, the passage of time becomes tangible. Each preserved and curated item holds a unique imprint of the era it originates from, inviting us to ponder the connections between individual experience and the broader movements of history.
Such collections and its contents often reveal intricate stories of transformation, innovation, and exchange, reflecting the shifting tides of knowledge, religion, culture, politics and in societies across centuries. However, often such contents were never / are no longer ‘physically’ assessable to the public with its danger to loose such contents forever.
We are specialized in non-print publications with such endangered contents in its original works, created in the 12th – early 20th Centuries. And mostly held in privately owned Libraries, Archives, Museums, often ‘physically’ preserved in publicly non-assessable collections.
Our non-print contents – originally created during the 12th – early 20th Centuries – were (re-)printed & (re-) published in ‘physical’ books, pamphlets, periodicals, autographs during the 16th to the early 20th Centuries. Our non print publications includes these contents from approx. 40,000* works ‘in English, French, German, and some works in Latin Language. The authorships were professionally checked to identify / verify 6,200 authors and 250 artists with their works in our archives (without authorships and contents in our Periodicals).
Our Art-database contains Art data and images for 4,300* paintings / drawings. The ‘physical” artworks (oil, aquarelle, etc.) were created by about 250* Artists in the 16th to the 19th Centuries in Europe.
Our Political History collections contains minimum 660 titles (classified per definition “Political History”), newly published in eBooks and some works as microfiches titles. Its contents are retrieved from mostly original ‘physical’ pages in endangered paper quality. With our media change and subsequently its contents migrations, we should not loose these valuable contents in the foreseeable future.
Our Historic Socialism collections contains contents from ‘physical’ originals, written by 353 Authors and 362 anonymous writers, related to the topic Proletarian Women’s Movement. Hereby are published 940 titles in 1,044 eBooks with 87,000 pages.
Additional Historic Socialism contents are available in 1,743 microfiches titles, originally published in the second half of the 19th – early 20th Centuries. In total 325,000 pages in about 2,500 ‘physical’ volumes, also with endangered paper quality. Here again, this data migration ‘guaranties’ for the foreseeable future, not to loose its contents for ever.
Our Theology collections contains works written by 682 Authors during 12th – 19th Centuries, originally published (mostly in German incl. translations) in the 16th – early 19th Centuries. In total 715,000 pages from 3,500 original ‘physical’ volumes. These contents from 1,838 titles were newly published in 1,933 eBooks. Here are title quantities during the Baroque times :
- 16th Century: 57 writers / 99 titles / about 26,450 pages
- 17th Century: 219 writers / 480 titles / about 192,750 pages
- 18th Century: 464 writers / 1,183 titles / about 420,000 pages.
The Literature collections contains works in English, French and German, written by 4,000 authors. Its titles are available as eBooks and / or as microfiche titles.
The English Language Novels collection is “…the most concentrated source available worldwide for the Romantic Period” (P. Garside, J. Raven, R. Schoewerling, The English Novel 1770 – 1829, Vol. II, Oxford). Sheffield Hallam University (UK) mentioned in in one of their publications, that the collection with English Language Novels “…is more comprehensive even than the British Library” .
Included in this whole Literature collection are works by 730 women writers of the 18th & 19th Centuries (especially Romantic Period): 356 female authors in English language, 224 female authors in French, and 150 female writers in German. Before our Non-Print publications with English Language titles / Novels cwere available on the market, Dale Spender’s Standard-Bibliography „Mothers of the Novel“ listed
- 106 English Language women writers with fictions for this time period,
- we have more than three times women writers than in this ‘Dale Spender‘ – quantity, altogether 356 women writers in the collection English Language Women´s Literature of the 18th & 19th Centuries.
About 2,300 anonymously written titles** exists in most of our topics (not in Psychology and not in Fine Arts). These anon. titles offer challenging research opportunities to ‘unmask’ its authorships and its contents. And eventually to find answers, why such works were written / published anonymously in the past.
It is a similar interesting situation regarding authorship and / or contents in Literature Anthologies. As an example, in 31 French Language Anthology titles, its texts were written by different French authors with contents in different genres however, originally published in one ‘physical’ work.
In addition, a total of 215 Periodicals with Fictions & Non-Fictions, including hundreds of authors & articles within a total of 120,000 pages, invites you to unmask individual authorship and its contents within these 215 Periodicals.su
Our digital Fine Arts collections contains Art historian data and images for 4,300 paintings/drawings from about 250 artists in Europe, originally created in the 16th – 19th Centuries. Included are 12 German Renaissance Artists with Paintings/Drawings, 169 Artists with Dutch Baroque Paintings, and 74 Artists (family name’s characters A – G) with 19th Century Paintings in Europe.
All our Non-Print publications and its contents could be useful for Library collection developments. And can be used for Libraries to serve users’ content wishes. And at the same moment supporting initiatives to own Library’s holdings with its long-term archival necessities, in this way preserving own ‘physical’ holdings if needed.
Furthermore, our contents could be useful for Research & Teaching projects within Faculties, such as Humanities, History, Religion, Theology, Literature, Psychology, Social Sciences, Regional Studies, fine Arts, Art History, etc.
We hope you’ll find inspiration, knowledge, and new avenues in collection management and / or researches / projects within our extensive archive.
Comments:
There are no title / artwork duplications within the collections and in-between the collections.
The eBooks and / or microfiches titles are available together with electronic Bibliographic records (MARC).
Upon your inquiry through our SHOP, content(s) in our microfiche title(s) could eventually be available in digital format or by P.o.Demand.
About half of the original ‘physical’ works are in German. According to International Standards we leave such texts and its bibliographic data in German language. In some of our Webpages we added texts in English or French.
Notes:
* Subject to change
** the word “title” means “bibliographic unit”, i.e. one title contains the content of at least one original ‘physical’ volume or work. However, depending on the original published work, one of our titles can also contain contents of two, three (‘three-deckers‘) or even more original ‘physical’ works / volumes.
Last update: 18th October 2025

