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- Title
Inservio studiis Antonii a Dorth Vesaliensis The Many Uses of a Seventeenth-Century Book Sales Catalogue.
- Authors
Huisman, Gerda C.
- Abstract
This contribution examines the various uses to which a seventeenth-century Groningen student put his copy of the sales catalogue of an Amsterdam bookseller's stock: as a bibliographical manual, a private library catalogue, a comparative price list, and a wish list for books to read and buy.
- Subjects
GRONINGEN (Netherlands); NETHERLANDS; HISTORY of the bibliography; SEVENTEENTH century; BOOK sales &; prices; BOOKSELLERS &; bookselling; PRIVATE libraries; LIBRARY catalogs; VON Dorth, Anton; READING interests of college students; RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT te Groningen; HISTORY; HISTORY of libraries
- Publication
Quaerendo, 2011, Vol 41, Issue 3/4, p276
- ISSN
0014-9527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/157006911X609339