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- ↑ Maurice Sabbe, "César-Joachim Trognaesius", Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 25 (Brussels, 1932), 662.
- ↑ Carlo de Clercq, "Jean-Jacques Courvoisier", Bibliotheca belgica , vol. 227-228 (1963), entry C890.
- Fernand Donnet, Les Imprimeurs Trognaesius et leur famille (Antwerp, 1919)
