Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Early Models and Development -- Chapter 1 Book Trade Catalogues: From Bookselling Tool to Book Historical Source -- Chapter 2 Booklists and the Republic of Letters: The Case of Peiresc -- Chapter 3 The Auction Catalogue of Charles III of Croÿ's Library (Brussels, 1614): An Object-Oriented Approach -- Chapter 4 Dutch Printed Private Library Sales Catalogues, 1599-1800: A Bibliometric Overview -- Chapter 5 The Art of the Steal: The Economics of Auctioning Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London -- Chapter 6 How to Sell Left-Over Stock? Lessons from Mattheus van Nispen's Book Sale Catalogue of 1681 -- Part 2 Personal Libraries -- Chapter 7 Building a Library in the Dutch Golden Age: André Rivet and His Books -- Chapter 8 Networks of Devotion: Auction Catalogues and the Catholic Book Trade in Amsterdam, 1650-1700 -- Chapter 9 Sales Catalogues of Jewish-Owned Private Libraries in the Dutch Republic during the Long Eighteenth Century: A Preliminary Overview -- Part 3 Disruption and Change -- Chapter 10 The Decline of the Frankfurt Book Fair after the Thirty Years' War -- Chapter 11 The Dutch Baltic. The Dutch Book Trade and the Building of Libraries in the Baltic and Central Europe during the Dutch Golden Age -- Part 4 Early Enlightenment -- Chapter 12 Sold in a Closed Room. Auctioning Libri Prohibiti in the Dutch Republic, 1670-1720 -- Chapter 13 'Il sest vendu depuis peu une assez bonne bibliotheque': The Republic of Letters and the Sale Catalogue of the Library of Pierre Briot (1679) -- Part 5 Models of Collecting -- Chapter 14 Catalogues in Catalogues: Imitation and Competition in Early Modern Book Collecting.

Chapter 15 Building the Bibliothèque Choisie, from Jean Le Clerc to Samuel Formey: Library Manuals, Review Journals and Auction Catalogues in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 16 From Private Inventory to Public Catalogue. Prosper Marchand's Catalogus librorum bibliothecae domini Joachimi Faultrier and "Epitome systematis bibliographici" (1709) -- Part 6 Later Developments -- Chapter 17 Booksellers' Catalogues in Zagreb, 1796-1823 -- Bibliography -- Index.

This edited collection offers 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.

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