Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830

Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830

Author: Rindert Jagersma

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-11-07

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9004542965

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The essays 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 micro-level research conducted on individual libraries, and from analyses of specific types of primary sources to general typologies and overviews by period and by region. As a result of its comparative approach and active engagement with questions regarding the nature, selection and accessibility of sources, the volume serves as a guide to sources and resources in different regions as well as to state-of the-art methods and interpretational approaches. Publication of this volume in open access was made possible by the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017 for Humanities.


Private Libraries and Their Documentation, 1665-1830

Private Libraries and Their Documentation, 1665-1830

Author: Rindert Jagersma

Publisher: Library of the Written Word

Published: 2023-10-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004542952

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Serving as a guide to sources and resources, as well as to state-of the-art methods and interpretational approaches, Private Libraries and their Documentation brings together twenty contributions on the contents, uses and owners of early modern private libraries.


Staatenkunde als Weltbeschreibung

Staatenkunde als Weltbeschreibung

Author: Lukas Reddemann

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 655

ISBN-13: 9004549811

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Diese Studie liefert die erste umfängliche Untersuchung der „Republiken“, den ersten und einflussreichsten frühneuzeitlichen Staatsbeschreibungen, die als Buchreihe publiziert wurden. Die Republiken wurden in den 1620er und 1630er Jahren in Leiden und Amsterdam gedruckt und avancierten zu Grundlagentexten der frühneuzeitlichen Staatenkunde. Zunächst verfolgt die Untersuchung die Verbreitung der Bände in Buchsammlungen und Bibliotheken des 17. Jahrhunderts und liefert so neue Erkenntnisse zu verschiedenen Leser- und Nutzergruppen der Republiken sowie ihrer prominenten Rolle auf dem frühneuzeitlichen Buchmarkt. Weiter verfolgt die Studie anhand dreier Fallstudien – der Republik der Niederlande, des spanischen Weltreichs sowie des safawidischen Persien – die Funktionen der Bände im Wissenschaftsbetrieb sowie die Text-, Ideen- und politischen Traditionen, in denen sie stehen. This book offers the first comprehensive study of the earliest and most notable early modern book series of state descriptions, the ‘Republics’. Printed in Leiden and Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s, the Republics evolved into foundational works of early modern political studies. By first tracing the volumes’ circulation and presence in book collections and libraries in the seventeenth century, this study provides fresh insights into their diverse readerships as well as their prominent role in the early modern book market. It then delves into their various academic purposes and their textual, intellectual, and political traditions through selected case studies on the Dutch Republic, the Spanish Empire, and Safavid Persia.


Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750

Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750

Author: Ann-Marie Hansen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-03-18

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 9004691944

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This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries. Its essays discuss this critical, but much neglected period of print history through case studies from Spain, Italy, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Britain and the Netherlands. Ranging from the posthumous publication of Galileo to the regulation of the book auction market, this volume demonstrates that the century between 1650 and 1750 was a transformative period for the history of the printed book.