Online collections for Dutch texts
Search for books that are public domain in the USA. For "foreign" (non-American) books, these will be books that were published before 1923. Exceptions may be books in Dutch that were published in the USA (yes, those exist!).
Gallica
is the system of the French national library. It currently has about 80,000 titles scanned, and is still growing. Its Dutch language texts are either related to France or are translations of French authors.
The Internet Archive
Many of the Dutch texts here are from Google Books or from Gutenberg, but there is also a number from other sources, such as the Canadian Libraries project (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto)
Google Books
contains books in many languages, including Dutch. Books from dates until ca. 1880 are usually available in full.
Digitale Bijzondere Collecties
Digital special collections at the University Library of the University of Utrecht has a number of digitized rare works. Many of these are Dutch, but other languages are also represented. A large proportion of the works available are related to the history of the University itself, but you can also find art-history, polar expeditions, and early travelogues here.
Het Geheugen van Nederland
The Memory of the Netherlands. Extensive collection of old graphic materials. May contain some interesting books as well.
Early Dutch Books Online
10.000 books from the Netherlands (and Dutch-speaking Belgium) from the period 1780-1800. See Harvester for Earlydutchbooks for a scraper.
EDBO ask the following of us (forumpost:804016):
- That we use as credit line: Early Dutch Books Online http://www.earlydutchbooksonline.nl
- That we scrape using the URL http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=dpo:####:mpeg21:$$$$:image (where #### is the object number, and $$$$ is the scan number)
- That when we scrape many pages, we do so outside of office hours.
Historische Kranten
Not books, but newspapers. However, many newspapers used to contain 'feuilletons', serials with a book-like content.
