Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese Heaven


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This book describes more than 220 copies of various astronomical publications by the missionary Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) sent from Peking.







Reading in Exile


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On the accession of Mary Tudor many Catholic recusants left England for the continent. Some managed to take their books with them. The two inventories post mortem and one auction list studied in this volume shed light on the books of Englishmen in the Low Countries in the later-16th century.










Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book


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In Episodes, Ian Maclean investigates the ways in which the book trade operated through book fairs, and interacted with academic institutions, journals and intellectual life in various European settings (Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and England) in the long seventeenth century.