Private Libraries and Their Documentation, 1665-1830 : : Studying and Interpreting Sources / / edited by Rindert Jagersma [and three others].

"The contributions 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 mic...

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Superior document:Library of the Written Word Series ; Volume 112
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Library of the written word ; Volume 112.
Physical Description:1 online resource (431 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Private Libraries in Use
  • The Leufstabruk Catalogues: Life Narrative, Collector's Rationale and Network of Charles de Geer / Alex Alsemgeest
  • A Private Library as a Material History of the Book: Otto Thott's Encyclopedic Library in Copenhagen / Anders Toftgaard
  • A Collegiant Library in Rijnsburg at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: The Books of Jan Matthijsz van Drieborn (d. 1715) / Paul G. Hoftijzer
  • Sharing Books in Eighteenth-Century Languedoc: The Library of Jean-François Séguier / Laurence Brockliss
  • Private Libraries and the Second-Hand Book Trade in Early Modern Academia: The Case of Leuven University 1425-1797 / Pierre Delsaerdt
  • Book Auctions at the Reformed College of Debrecen (1743-1842) / Róbert Oláh
  • Some Notes on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Library Archives as a Source for the Reconstruction of Private Libraries in Italy and the Vatican City / Giliola Barbero
  • Book Ownership in Parma, Italy (1665-1830) / Federica Dallasta
  • For Don Antonio Meave I Leave the Three Folios of My Dear and Venerable Father Louis of Granada: Tracing Books in the Archivo General de Notarías of Mexico City / Andrea Reyes Elizondo
  • Private Libraries in New Spain: A Project in Progress / Idalia García Aguilar and Alberto José Campillo Pardo
  • Part 3. Private Library Research in Regional Contexts
  • Mercury in the Republic of Letters: Private Libraries in Spanish Book Sales Catalogues (1660-1800) / Pedro Rueda Ramírez and Lluís Agustí
  • Lists of Private Book Collections in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Royal Prussia, 1680-1830 / Michał Bajer
  • Surviving Records of Private Book Collections in the Kingdom of Hungary and the Transylvanian Principality between 1665 and 1830 / István Monok
  • From Extensive Learned Libraries to Modest Book Collections: Research on Danish Private Book Collections of the Long Eighteenth Century / Jonas Thorup Thomsen
  • The Cornerstone of Scholarship: Library Catalogues in Late Imperial China / Fan Wang
  • Part 4. Building a Field of Study
  • The Private Libraries in Renaissance England (PLRE) Project: An Overview / Joseph L. Black
  • Philosophers' Private Libraries (1600-1800) / Giovanna Granata
  • Private Libraries and the Material Evidence in Incunabula Database / Marieke van Delft
  • Ces documents rédigés à la hâte et imprimés avec assez peu de soin: The Long Road to the Realisation of Book Sales Catalogues Online / Otto S. Lankhorst.