Abstract
Frederik Muller started his rare books business in Amsterdam in I843, and combined his commercial activities with scholarship. After he died his business partner, Frederik Adama roan Scheltema, continued the firm and in I885 employed Anton Mensing, a young, energetic, and ambitious bookbinder; as his assistant. In I892 Mensing became a partner in the firm, and when Adama van Scheltema died, he continued Frederik Muller & Co, soon expanding it with art auctions. These became a great success, and resulted in the first international market for works of art, applied art, and historic scientific instruments in the Netherlands which continued into the I930s. In I956, long after Mensing's death, fake historic scientific instruments were associated with the Strozzi and Heilbronner collections that had been sold by Mensing. This caused international concern but recent research shows that there is no reason to believe in Mensing's personal involvement.
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