Date : 2021
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-90-04-42223-0
ISBN : 90-04-42223-4
EAN : 9789004422230
Catalogues de libraires -- Europe -- 17e siècle
Catalogues de libraires -- Europe -- 18e siècle
Livres -- Vente aux enchères -- Europe -- 17e siècle
Livres -- Vente aux enchères -- Europe -- 18e siècle
Bibliothèques privées -- Europe -- 17e siècle
Bibliothèques privées -- Europe -- 18e siècle
Classification Dewey : 381/.4500209409032
Collection : Library of the written word / Leiden : Brill , 2007-
Collection : Library of the Written Word / editor-in-cheif, Andrew Pettegree / Leiden : Brill , 2007-
Résumé / Abstract : 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