During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Dutch Republic performed a crucial function as the cultural and intellectual clearinghouse of Europe. It was partly through the existence of a well-established and highly competitive publishing industry and book trade that the Dutch were able to play such a prominent role in the international transmission of knowledge and ideas. Yet our understanding of the Dutch involvement in the European book trade still is limited and important questions remain to be answered. How was Dutch publishing and bookselling for the international market organised? What was the nature of the books that were exchanged? In order to stimulate research in this field an international colloquium was held in 1990 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), under the title "'Le Magasin de l'Univers.' The Dutch Republic as the Centre of the European Book Trade". This volume brings together the twenty-two contributions presented at the conference by historians of the book from England, France, Switzerland, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Author(s): Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck, Hans Bots, Paul G. Hoftijzer, Otto S. Lankhorst (eds.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 31
Publisher: E. J. Brill
Year: 1992
Language: English, French, German
Pages: 330
City: Leiden
Préface ix
The Dutch republic and book history: Some desiderata / Frans Α. Janssen 1
Un cabinet de livres européen en Hollande: La bibliothèque de Prosper Marchand / Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck 11
Michel Rey's enlightenment / Raymond Birn 23
Quelques acquisitions Hollandaises de la bibliothèque du Roi (1668-1735) / Françoise Bléchet 33
Le rôle des périodiques Néerlandais pour la diffusion du livre (1684-1747) / Hans Bots 49
Le psautier Huguenot chez les imprimeurs Néerlandais: Concurrence ou spécialisation? / Jean-Daniel Candaux 71
The trade in catholic books from the Northern to the Southern Netherlands, 1650-1795 / Th. Clemens 85
Quand Amsterdam rime avec Lausanne: Impressions Lausannoises datées des Pays-Bas / S. Corsini 95
Music publishing in the Dutch republic: The present state of research / A. Dunning 121
Jan Luyken (1649-1712) and Casper Luyken (1672-1708): Dutch illustrators / I. H. van Eeghen 129
English books in the Netherlands in the eighteenth century: Reprints or piracies? / John Feather 143
The Hebrew book trade in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century / R. G. Fuks-Mansfeld 155
The Leiden bookseller Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733) and the international book trade / P. G. Hoftijzer 169
The Frankfurt and Leipzig book fairs and the history of the Dutch book trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / A. H. Laeven 185
Les ventes aux enchères des livres à La Haye dans la première moitié du 18e siècle / Otto S. Lankhorst 199
Relations ambiguës des libraires Rouennais et Hollandais à la fin du XVIIe et au début du XVIIIe siècle / Jean-Dominique Mellot 211
Die Niederländische Büchererwerbungen in der fürstlichen Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel im 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhundert / Paul Raabe 223
Un commerce de librairie entre Neuchâtel et La Haye (1769-1779) / M. Schlup 237
Johannes van Ravesteyn, "libraire européen" or local trader? / B. van Selm 251
Dutch penetration of the London market for books, c. 1690-1730 / Katherine Swift 265
Le rôle des libraires hollandais dans la diffusion des livres
interdits en France dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle / Françoise Weil 281
Magasin de l'univers ou magasin de la République?: Le commerce du livre néerlandais aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles / Roger Chartier 289
Index 309
