Unfortunately not many research on the history of Dutch country houses as a phenomena has been published in foreign languages. sKBL made this short inventory. Some are books (or chapters in books), some are articles in magazines.
| Author | Title | Editor | Year of Publication and remarks |
| Heimerick Tromp | Private Country Houses in the Netherlands | Waanders Publishers | 1997. Well written book on aprox. one hundred privately owned country houses in the Netherlands |
| Vanessa Bezemer- Sellers | Courtly gardens in Holland 1600-1650 | Architectura et Natura | 2001. This interesting book deals primarily on gardens in the first half of the 17th century of which hardly anything remained. |
| John Dixon Hunt | The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century | Dumbarton Oaks | 1980. |
| Elyse Storms-Smeets | Landscape and society in Twente & Utrecht: A geography of dutch country estates, ca 1800-1950 | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | 2005 |
| Elizabeth den Hartog and Carla Teune | Gaspar Fagel (1633-88): His garden and plant collection at Leeuwenhorst, | Garden History; Journal of the Garden History Society, nr.30 , pp. 191-205. | 2002 |
| Marisca Sikkens-de Zwaan | Magdalena Poulle (1632-99): a Dutch lady in a circle of botanical collectors | Garden History; Journal of the Garden History Society, nr.30 , pp. 202-220. | 2002 |
| Claudia Swan | Collecting Naturalia in the Shadow of Early Modern Dutch Trade,” Colonial Botany, Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World | University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 223-236 | 2005 |