Private Libraries and Their Documentation, 1665-1830: Studying and Interpreting Sources

Contents:

Goldmines or Minefields? Private Libraries and Their Documentation (1665–1830) / Rindert Jagersma, Helwi Blom and Ann-Marie Hansen

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

Part 2. Uncovering Private Libraries in Archival Sources.
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