Rabus, Pieter, ed. (1660-1702) De Boekzaal van Europe.
Rotterdam: Pieter vander Slaart, 1692 & 1693.
Five parts in two octavo volumes covering July through December 1692 [and] January through June 1693, first volume illustrated with one double-page woodcut, divisional titles, pagination, and collation continuous, bound in full contemporary uniform Dutch parchment over boards, nicely preserved, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (2)
The Bookroom of Europe was a publication edited by Rabus and contained notice of newly published books. "The pages of this periodical were teeming with the ideas of the greatest minds of those days – John Locke, Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, Fénelon, Balthasar Bekker, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Richard Simon – and their innovative way of thinking. The intention was not only to promote these ideas among an intellectual elite, but also to disseminate them among a much wider circle of interested people that had hitherto been denied access to the cultural and spiritual life in Europe. The periodical in question was designed as a non-specialist medium but was nevertheless of sufficient scientific caliber to be properly considered as a variant of the then already existing scientific press." (cf. Intellectual emancipation during the Early Enlightenment: The Ambitions of aPioneering Periodical from Rotterdam, Léon Stapper, Universiteitsbibliotheek Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. http://www.eerp.nl)
