@book{7442,
  editor = {Flavia Bruni and Andrew Pettegree},
  title = {Lost Books: Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe},
  year = {2016},
  pages = {523 pp.},
  publisher = {Brill},
  address = {Leiden, Netherlands},
  isbn = {9789004311817},
  note = {<p>Contents</p><ul><li><p>The legion of the lost : recovering the lost books of early modern Europe / Andrew Pettegree&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p></li></ul><p>Part I. In the beginning : lost incunabula&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The Gutenberg Galaxy's dark matter : lost incunabula, and ways to retrieve them / Falk Eisermann </li><li>Lost incunable editions : closing in on an estimate / Jonathan Green and Frank Mcintyre&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part II. National case-studies&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Lost books of polyphony from Renaissance Spain / Jain Fenlon </li><li>Lost books, lost libraries, lost everything?: a Scandinavian early modern perspective / Wolfgang Undorf </li><li>In search of lost Fortuna: reconstructing the publishing history of the Polish book of fortune-telling / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba</li><li>Lost print in England: entries in the Stationers' Company register, 1557-1640 / Alexandra Hill </li><li>Survival factors of seventeenth-century hand-press books published in the southern Netherlands: the importance of sheet counts, Sammelbände and the role of institutional collections / Goran Proot </li><li>Publicity and its uses: lost books as revealed in newspaper advertisements in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree </li><li>Lost books and dispersed libraries in Sicily during the seventeenth century / Domenico Ciccarello&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part III. Censorship and its consequences&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Lost issues and self-censorship: rethinking the publishing history of Guillaume Budé's De l'institution du prince / Christine Benevent and Malcolm Walsry </li><li>The editorial history of a rare and forbidden Franciscan book of the Italian Renaissance: the Dialoga della unione spirituale di Dio con l'anima by Bartolomeo Cardoni / Michele Camaioni </li><li>An unknown best-seller: the Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo / Rosa Marisa Borraccini </li><li>The devil's trick : impossible editions in the lists of titles from the regular orders in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century / Roberto Rusconi </li><li>On the track of lost editions in Italian religious libraries at the end of the sixteenth century: a numerical analysis of the RICI database / Giovanna Granata&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part IV. Libraries, private and public&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Loss and meaning: lost books, bibliographic description and significance in a sixteenth-century Italian private library / Anna Giulia Cavagna </li><li>Confiscated manuscripts and books: what happened to the personal library and archive of Hugo Grotius following his arrest on charges of high treason in August 1618? / Martine </li><li>Julia van Ittersum Dispersed collections of scientific books: the case of the private library of Federico Cesi (1585-1630) / Maria Teresa Biagetti </li><li>Lost in plain sight : rediscovering the library of Sir Hans Sloane / Alison Walker </li><li>Book use and sociability in lost libraries of the eighteenth century: towards a union catalogue / Mark Towsey</li></ul><p>Part V. War and peace: the depredations of modem times&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Lost books of 'Operation Gomorrah': rescue, reconstruction, and restitution at Hamburg's library in the Second World War / Jan L. Alessandrini </li><li>Two centuries of looting and the grand Nazi book burning: the dispersed and destroyed libraries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: historical losses and contemporary attempts at reconstruction / Tomasz Nastulczyk </li><li>All is not lost : Italian archives and libraries in the Second World War / Flavia Bruni </li><li>Tracing lost broadsheet ordinances printed in sixteenth-century Cologne / Saskia Limbach</li></ul>},
  language = {English},
}