Books on the move , 2007
- Title:
- Books on the move : tracking copies through collections and the book trade / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote.
- Published/Created:
- New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; 2007.
London : British Library, 2007. - Physical Description:
- xv, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryZ291.7 .B66 2007 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Reference Library is closed until further notice. For scans from the reference collection please email ycba.reference@yale.edu. - Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8037012
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- "The present volume is the twenty-seventh in the series of proceedings of the annual conference on book trade history, which started in 1979. This conference was held at Wesley's Chapel in City Road on 1 and 2 December 2006, under the auspices of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association ..."--Introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Contents:
- Lost : the destruction, dispersal, and rediscovery of manuscripts / Peter Beal -- What can we learn by tracking multiple copies of books? / David Pearson -- The creation and dispersal of the library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli / Angela Nuovo -- Books from the library of Andrea Dudith (1533-89) in the library of Isaac Vossius (1618-89) / Astrid Balsern -- From Venice and Naples to Paris, The Hague, London, Oxford, Berlin-- : the odyssey of the manuscript collection of Gerard and Johan Meerman / Jos van Heel -- Pathways to survival of books of hours printed in Italy in the fifteenth century / Cristina Dondi -- Bibliophily and public-private partnership : the library of Gustave van Havre (1817-92) and its afterlife in Antwerp libraries / Pierre Delsaerdt.
- Subject Terms:
- Book collecting -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.Books -- Provenance -- Congresses.Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.Private libraries -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
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