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Donation by Mrs. J. Nadorp-Ydema and children
Acquisition 1994
Date Twentieth century
Over 4,000 books, journals and documentation
Signature BRIDGE 0001 – BRIDGE 4058
Edmond Emilius Nadorp (1934-1993) was a well-known real estate agent in The Hague with a passion for bridge. He took up the game in his youth, first at home and later at a club. In addition, he began reading and buying books on bridge at a young age. After turning fifty, he started collecting systematically and purchased dozens of publications both in the Netherlands and abroad. His collection quickly grew to become one of the largest in the world. In 1983 Nadorp helped found the Denksportcentrum in Pulchri Studio and played at various bridge clubs, including Up en Down and the Haagse Oefenclub (HOC). He often competed in all sorts of tournaments and foursome competitions, including the Hoechst tournaments and the Red Cross drives. After he passed away, his family donated his collection to the Koninklijke Bibliotheek.
The collection is diverse and thorough. It includes older works on whist, a popular card game that can be considered the forerunner of modern-day bridge. All of the works by twentieth-century bridge masters including Ely Culbertson and Charles Goren are on hand in multiple editions, while Dutch authors such as F.W. Goudsmit and H.W. Filarski are also well represented.
Of course, contemporary books by Cees Sint and Ton Schipperheyn are included. The collection features works on other card games as well, from Klaberjass to poker, as well as books on the history of card games and playing cards. The Koninklijke Bibliotheek has pledged to expand the collection with the additional purchase of new and antiquarian works.
The bridge collection fits in well with the large collections on other sports housed at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, in some cases for many decades, which are still being expanded, such as the falconry, mountaineering, chess and checkers collections. In the same year that the Koninklijke Bibliotheek acquired the bridge collection, the library also received an extremely large collection on various sports from the Dutch Olympic Committee and Dutch Sports Federation, NOC*NSF.
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