These links might give some info..
http://www.tulipessauvages.org...
Some photos of historic tulips on this Dutch site .. click on photo album.
http://www.hortus-bulborum.nl/...
A search on the NCCG (National plant collections) site here gives some results, if you want to contact Kew Gardens, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens.
http://www.nccpg.com/National-...
http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/B...
An old book where you can view very old varieties online..
http://www.neha.nl/specialcoll...
KAVB holds the names register.
http://www.kavb.nl/index.cfm?a...
After some playing around on the KAVB site I found a Tulip register list! There's 5,642 of them!!!
http://kavb.back2p.soft-orange...