Selling & collecting : : printed book sale catalogues and private libraries in early modern Europe / / edited by Giovanna Granata, Angela Nuovo.

• TeilnehmendeR: Granata, Giovanna,; Nuovo, Angela,
• Place / Publishing House: Macerata : : EUM (Edizioni Università di Macerata),, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 pages)

Based on the contributions given at a conference held at the University of Cagliari in September 2017, this collection of essays provides an insight into the distribution and acquisition of printed books in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Publishers' and booksellers' catalogues are examined as evidence of the advertising and selling techniques used by agents in the book trade, with a focus on book prices. The role of sixteenth-century private libraries and the growing phenomenon of book collecting are studied within a commercial frame. In this context, private collections are investigated as places of preservation rather than consumption, of the works being circulated within the book trade.

Table of Contents

Giovanna Granata, Angela Nuovo 7 Introduction. The development of the book market and book collecting in the sixteenth century -- Giovanna Granata 11 The collection of Monserrat Rosselló in the University Library of Cagliariy -- Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni 35 Building an up-to-date library. Prospero Podiani's use of booksellers' catalogues, with special reference to law booksy -- Graziano Ruffini 79 Une vente de livres à Gênes en 1583y -- Christian Coppens, Angela Nuovo 145 Printed catalogues of booksellers as a source for the history of the book tradey -- Francesco Ammannati 161 Book prices and monetary issues in Renaissance Europey -- Goran Proot 177 Prices in Robert Estienne's booksellers' catalogues (Paris 1541-1552): a statistical analysisy -- Giliola Barbero 211 Ordinary and extraordinary prices in the Giolito Libri spirituali sales listy -- Flavia Bruni 265 Peace at the Lily. The De Franceschi section in the stockbook of Bernardino Giuntiy -- Pedro Rueda Ramírez 283 La venta de libros italianos en Madrid en tiempos de Felipe II: el catálogo de Simone Vassalini (1597)y -- 301 Abstractsy -- 306 Index.