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Grenoble, Liège, and Nice. As for the Netherlands, Mouton published among others series for the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (Studies in the social sciences), and on a smaller scale for university institutes in Utrecht, like the A.W. de Groot Instituut voor Algemene Taalwetenschap (Acta linguistica rheno-trajectina), Institute di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (Ricerche linguistiche e lessicografiche) and the Instituut voor Oosterse talen (Disputationes rheno-trajectinaé). Some series were not connected to specif ic universities or institutes: Studies in American literature, Studies in English literature (72 titles in this catalogue from 1970), Studies in European history and Studies in philosophy. Van Schooneveld had no monopoly on publishing in the realm of Slavistics. In addition to his Slavistic printings and reprintings Mouton also had Slavic series edited by others, like Musagetes: Contributions to the history of Slavic lit erature and culture and Slavo-Orientalia: Monographienreihe tiber die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen der slavischen und orientalischen Welt. These series were actually quite short-lived. The spectrum of books that appeared independent of series was quite diverse: inaugural speeches (e.g. C.L. Ebeling, Taal- en letterkunde: aspecten van het Russische formalisme, 1955), textbooks (e.g. Horace G. Lunt, Fundamentals of Russian (first Russian course), 1958), dissertations (e.g. Bradford G. Martin, German-Persian diplomatic relations, 1873-1912, 1959), books by special order that were obviously outside the sphere of the human ities (e.g. C. Franx, De stijfheid van platen en balken volgens de G.B.V. 1962, 1962), and reprints. In this single title category we find not only Van Eeden’s De kleine Johannes, but also one of Mouton’s most prestigious international titles, which no Western university library will be without: Roman Jakobson’s Selected Writings, a multi-volume work, the first of which appeared in 1962. Also in this group of books is The Kosduszko Foundation Dictionary (1959- 1961), a two-volume Polish-English, English-Polish dictionary. This dictio nary was a great commercial success for Mouton, through sales not only in the West, but also in the former People’s Republic of Poland. The list of periodicals mentions twenty-six titles, mostly in the field of linguistics (e.g. Folia linguistica and Linguistics) and in the social sciences. Also in this category, some titles where published in cooperation with insti tutes, such as Cahiers Économiques et Sociaux, a quarterly from the ‘Institut de recherches économiques et sodales’ in Kinshasa.

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