Selling & Collecting : Printed Book Sale Catalogues and Private Libraries in Early Modern Europe

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 ar...

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Other Authors: Granata, Giovanna (Editor), Nuovo , Angela (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: eum edizioni universita di macerata 2018
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