SELLING & COLLECTING: PRINTED BOOK SALE CATALOGUES AND PRIVATE LIBRARIES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Note sul testo
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.

Note sulle curatrici
Giovanna Granata teaches Bibliography and History of the Libraries at the University of Cagliari. She is the coordinator of the project CLASar (Census of Sardinian Early Books) funded by the regional government of Sardinia (opac.clasar.unica.it), co-coordinator of the editorial board of the research group on “Private Libraries of Philosophers from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century” (picus.unica.it), and member of the Scientific Commitee of RICI (Research on the Inquiry of the Congregation of the Index: rici.vatlib.it).
Angela Nuovo teaches History of the Book at the University of Udine. She was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, in 2012, and the recipient of an Ahmanson Research Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2014. In 2016 she was Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich (Cattedra de Sanctis). From 2016, she has been the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project EMoBookTrade. Among her recent publications is The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance (Brill, 2013; paperback edn 2015).

Contents
Giovanna Granata, Angela Nuovo, Introduction. The development of the book market and book collecting in the sixteenth century

Giovanna Granata, The collection of Monserrat Rosselló in the University Library of Cagliari

Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, Building an up-to-date library. Prospero Podiani’s use of booksellers’ catalogues, with special reference to law books

Graziano Ruffini, Une vente de livres à Gênes en 1583

Christian Coppens, Angela Nuovo, Printed catalogues of booksellers as a source for the history of the book trade

Francesco Ammannati, Book prices and monetary issues in Renaissance Europe

Goran Proot, Prices in Robert Estienne’s booksellers’ catalogues (Paris 1541-1552): a statistical analysis

Giliola Barbero, Ordinary and extraordinary prices in the Giolito Libri spirituali sales list

Flavia Bruni, Peace at the Lily. The De Franceschi section in the stockbook of Bernardino Giunti

Pedro Rueda Ramírez, La venta de libros italianos en Madrid en tiempos de Felipe II: el catálogo de Simone Vassalini (1597)

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