Figures

1.1 Advertising booksellers per city, 1669–1770 12

1.2 Booksellers and titles in the STCN 12

1.3 Portrait by Pieter van Gunst of the medical doctor and publicist Steven Blankaart when he was fifty years old. Engraving, between 1700–1731 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-55.762) 16

1.4 Title page of Leonardus Stocke, Berichten Wegens De Keelziekten En Scorbut of Blauwschuit. Dienende Tot Bewys Der Ontdekkingen Van Veele Heilzaame Genees-middelen (Utrecht: Gijsbert Tieme Van Paddenburg, 1759) (copy UL Leiden 626 F 2) 18

2.1 Alphabet (beceroles) (Barcelona: Vicenç Surià, 1676). Axiu Historic de la Ciutat de Barcelona 28

2.2 Seven Penitential Salms (Barcelona: Vicenç Surià, 1677). Axiu Historic de la Ciutat de Barcelona 29

2.3 Llibre de bons amonestaments (Barcelona: Pere Malo, 1584). Collecció Domènech-Ballester 30

2.4 Peregrinació del venturós pelegrí (Barcelona: Sebastià i Jaume Mathevat, 1634). New York Public Library 31

2.5 Aelii Antonii Nebrissensis, Grammaticae Latinae (Barcelona: Jaume Cendrat, 1590). Biblioteca de Catalunya 33

2.6 Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolarum (Barcelona: Antoni Lacavalleria, 1666). Biblioteca de Montserrat 35

3.1 Printed works on the cometary apparition of 1743/44 (including new editions, N = 164) 49

3.2 Numbers of articles in periodical journals on the cometary apparition of 1743/44 in relation to the titles of periodical journals (N = 87) 50

3.3 Media types of the publications reviewed within the collected articles in periodical journals on the cometary apparition of 1743/44 (N = 74) 55

3.4 Geographical origins of the reviewed publications in the collected articles in periodical journals on the cometary apparition of 1743/44 (N = 74) 56

3.5 Numbers of collected reviews in periodical journals on the cometary apparition of 1743/44 (N = 74) in relation to the number of independent publications (N = 40) 58

3.6 Göttingische Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen auf das Jahr MDCCXLIV (Göttingen: Johann Peter Schmid, 1744), title-page, VD18 10945385 61

3.7 Christian Gottlieb Guttmann, Vernünftige Gedancken über die neue Cometenlehre (Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, 1744), title-page, VD18 11508167 61

3.8 Johann Heyn, Gesamlete Briefe von den Cometen, der Sündflut, und dem Vorspiel des jüngsten Gerichts, etc. (Berlin: Ambrosius Haude, 1745), VD18 10945385 62

3.9 Freye Urtheile und Nachrichten zum Aufnehmen der Wissenschaften und Historie überhaupt (Hamburg: Georg Christian Grund, 1744), title page, VD18 90151410 65

6.1 Portrait of Johann Friedrich Rüdiger (1686–1743). Austrian National Library (PORT_00142196_01) 136

6.2 Title-page of Johann Friedrich Rüdiger’s Catalogus oder Verzeichnuß aller Büchern (1748). Národní muzeum Praha [National Museum], 57 F 8 156

7.1 Title-page of the original 1639 edition of La Charge des gouverneurs des places 170

7.2 Title-page of the counterfeit 1640 edition of La Charge des gouverneurs des places 171

7.3 Title-page of the original 1770 edition of Soirées hélvétiennes, alsaciennes et fran-comtoises 173

7.4 Title-page of the counterfeit 1772 edition of Soirées hélvétiennes, alsaciennes et fran-comtoises 174

7.5 ‘Londres’ editions published in the eighteenth century 178

7.6 ‘Londres’ editions published with tacit permission in the eighteenth century 178

8.1 The list of books sent to Gorton Chapel for the Parish Library 202

9.1 Page 758 of the Catalogi Bibliothecæ Gerstorffianæ, volume 3 211

9.2 Page from the index of the Bibliotheca Furliana 219

9.3 The total number of books in the Danish and Dutch catalogues surveyed for this chapter 221

9.4 Pages 99 and 98 of Introductio ad lectionem linguarum orientalium by Brian Walton (London: Tho. Roycroft, 1655) 230

9.5 Subdivision of Danish catalogues by language 232

9.6 Subdivision of Dutch catalogues by language 232

10.1 Petition of Jasper Köneken (1629–1715) to the city council in 1679; Lübeck, AHL: ASA Interna, Nr. 02263, fol. 1r9–1715) to the city council in 1679; L 244

10.2 Front of St Catherine’s Church in Lübeck (Katharinenkirche Lübeck). Book auctions took place in the auditorium on the premises of the old St Catherine’s Monastery (Katharinenkloster) 252

10.3 Interior of St Catherine’s Church in Lübeck (Katharinenkirche Lübeck) with Epitaph of Johann Heinrich von Seelen (1687–1762) 261

11.1 Private library catalogues published in France (1701–1800) 269

11.2 Classification systems in eighteenth-century private library catalogues printed in France 271

11.3 Catalogue titles 1751–1800 273

11.4 Catalogue Perrot 1776, Bibliothèque nationale de France, department of Littérature and Arts, Q-8300, title page 278

11.5 Catalogue Mirabeau 1791, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arsenal library, 8-H-25167, table of divisions 282

12.1 Two folios from Sloane’s catalogue of books. Sloane MS 3972C, vol. 6, fols. 6v, 7r. British Library (Public Domain in most countries except the UK) 298

12.2 Floorplan showing the arrangement of the foundational collections of the British Museum and the separation of Hans Sloane’s books and manuscripts from the other objects in his collection. BMCA, (uncatalogued, Flitcroft and Brazier Plans of Montague House 1740–1779) 314

Tables

1.1 Booksellers in medical advertisements 10

5.1 Scientific and medical books in the Dominican Index 111

9.1 Percentage of English imprints found in the collections surveyed 221

9.2 The composition of the four catalogues by date of publication 233