Author : G. Granata
Publisher :
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9788860565723
Author : Arthur der Weduwen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9004422242
This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as in guiding the tastes of book collectors and inspiring some of the greatest libraries of the era. Catalogues in the Low Countries, Britain, Germany, France and the Baltic region are studied as important products of the early modern book trade, and as reconstructive tools for the history of the book. These catalogues offer a goldmine of information on the business of books, and they allow scholars to examine questions on the distribution and ownership of books that would otherwise be extremely difficult to pursue. Contributors: Helwi Blom, Pierre Delsaerdt, Arthur der Weduwen, Anna E. de Wilde, Shanti Graheli, Ann-Marie Hansen, Rindert Jagersma, Graeme Kemp, Ian Maclean, Alicia C. Montoya, Andrew Pettegree, Philippe Schmid, Forrest C. Strickland, Jasna Tingle, Marieke van Egeraat, and Elise Watson.
Author : Rindert Jagersma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004542965
The essays in Private Libraries and their Documentation revolve around the users and contents of early modern private book collections, and around the sources used to document and study these collections. They take the reader from large-scale projects on historical book ownership to micro-level research conducted on individual libraries, and from analyses of specific types of primary sources to general typologies and overviews by period and by region. As a result of its comparative approach and active engagement with questions regarding the nature, selection and accessibility of sources, the volume serves as a guide to sources and resources in different regions as well as to state-of the-art methods and interpretational approaches. Publication of this volume in open access was made possible by the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017 for Humanities.
Author : Shanti Graheli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004340394
Buying and Selling explores the business of books in and beyond Europe, investigating the practices adopted by traders and customers.
Author : Matteo Valleriani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030866009
This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text from manuscript to print culture, and in doing so transformed it into an established platform of scientific learning. The corpus, constituted of 359 different editions featuring Sacrobosco’s treatise on cosmology and astronomy printed between 1472 and 1650, represents the scientific European shared knowledge concerned with the cosmological worldview of the early modern period until far after the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The contributions to this volume show how the academic book trade influenced the process of homogenization of scientific knowledge. They also describe the material infrastructure through which such knowledge was disseminated, and thus define the premises for the foundation of modern scientific communities.
Author : Ian Maclean
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004440089
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.
Author : Kristen Doyle Highland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108911153
The spaces of bookselling have as many stories to tell as do the books for sale. More than static backgrounds for bookselling, these dynamic spaces both shape individual and collective behaviors and perceptions and are shaped by the values and practices of booksellers and book buyers. This Element focuses primarily on bookselling in the United States from the 19th through the 21st centuries and examines three key bookselling spaces-the store, the street, and the catalogue. Following an introduction, the second section considers how the material space of bookstores shapes social engagement in and cultural values associated with the bookstore. The third section turns to itinerant and sidewalk booksellers and the ways in which they use the physical, social, and legal space of the street to craft geographies of belonging. And the final section pages through bookseller catalogues, examining them as a significant genre that works to spatialize the bookstore.
Author : Robyn Adams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9004429816
Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives presents key topics for understanding the theory and practice of library formation in the seventeenth century, both in Britain and on the Continent. In eight studies (plus a substantial introduction and afterword) based on meticulous research, the volume addresses questions of acquisition, classification, administration and access, spatial arrangement and furniture, networks of collecting, and dispersal of libraries, and serves as an introduction to methods of investigating these themes. Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives is a landmark volume that confronts outstanding issues of cultural and intellectual history by synthesizing recent research on the growth of libraries during a period that was crucial for the development of modern knowledge management, historical attitudes, and material culture. Contributors: Robyn Adams, Richard Foster, Francesca Galligan, Jaap Geraerts, Jacqueline Glomski, Shanti Graheli, Clodagh Murphy, David Pearson, Dominique Varry, and Elizabeth Wells.
Author : Grolier Club
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780910672504
Sale catalogues of French libraries from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have long been regarded as a particularly valuable resource for scholars, bibliophiles, antiquarian booksellers, and librarians. Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions and Sales by Private Treaty 1643-1830 in the Library of the Grolier Club documents in exhaustive detail the earliest and most interesting portion of the Grolier Club's renowned collection of French book auction catalogues, shedding new light on the twin phenomena of private collecting and the antiquarian book trade in France at the height of its political power and cultural influence, while revealing hitherto neglected physical aspects of this very interesting class of bibliography. Each of the 616 entries in the catalogue includes full title transcription, detailed collation, and number of lots, often followed by extensive comments on the circumstances of the sale, as well as the history and subsequent fate of the collection. Additional notes minutely describe the copies in the Grolier Club collection, which are unusually rich in contemporary annotations and largely in bindings of the period. Compiled by former Grolier Club curator Michael North, the catalogue includes a history of the French book sale collection at the Club by Director & Librarian Eric Holzenberg, as well as an "appreciation" of the collection by scholar and bibliophile Edmond L. Lincoln. Designed by Peter Rutledge Koch, and printed in an edition of 500 copies at the Stinehour Press.
Author : Daniel Bellingradt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319595253
This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of ‘learned magic’ that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection from two angles – as an artefact of the early modern book market as well as the longue-durée tradition of Western learned magic –, thus taking a new stance towards scribal texts that are often regarded as eccentric, peripheral, or marginal. The study is structured by the apparent exceptionality, scarcity, and illegality of the collection, and provides chapters on clandestine activities in European book markets, questions of censorship regimes and efficiency, the use of manuscripts in an age of print, and the history of learned magic in early modern Europe. As the collection has survived till this day in Leipzig University Library, the book provides a critical edition of the 1710 selling catalogue, which includes a brief content analysis of all extant manuscripts. The study will be of interest to scholars and students from a variety of fields, such as early modern book history, the history of magic, cultural history, the sociology of religion, or the study of Western esotericism.
