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

Contents 

Part 1. Publishing Strategies 

• Practitioners, Pills and the Press: Publishing Strategies in the Dutch Medical Market (c.1660-c.1770) / Jeroen Salman
• School Books, Public Education and the State of Literacy in Early Modern Catalonia / Xevi Camprubí
• The Cometary Apparition of 1743/44: Periodical Journals in the Holy Roman Empire and Their Communicative Role / Doris Gruber 

Part 2. Censorship and Evasion 

• A Peculiar Case of Entrepreneurial Bravery: The First Edition of Galileo Galilei's Collected Works in the Context of Mid-seventeenth-century Publishing and Censorship / Leonardo Anatrini
• Persecuted in the Spanish Colonies: Inquisitorial Censorship and the Circulation of Medical and Scientific Books in New Spain and New Granada / Alberto José Campillo Pardo and Idalia García
• The Troubles of a Protestant Bookseller in a Catholic Market: The Nuremberg Bookseller Johann Friedrich Rüdiger (1686-1751) and the Prague Book Trade / Mona Garloff
• Disclosing False Imprints: a New Look at Eighteenth-Century French Printed Production / Dominique Varry 

Part 3. Auctions, Collectors and Catalogues 

• Early Modern English Parish Libraries: Collecting and Collections in the Francis Trigge Chained Library and the Gorton Chest Parish Library / Jessica G. Purdy
• 'Libri Anglici': English Books in Danish and Dutch Library Collections, c.1650-1720 / Hanna de Lange
• The Government at Auction: Urban Policy and the Market for Books in Eighteenth-Century Lübeck / Philippe Bernhard Schmid
• Philosophie or Commerce?: Classification Systems in Eighteenth-Century French Private Library Catalogues / Helwi Blom
• Sir Hans Sloane's Collection of Books and Manuscripts: an Enlightenment Library? / Alexandra Ortolja-Baird.