Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018)
Selling & Collecting: Printed Book Sale Catalogues and Private Libraries

A sale of books in Genoa in 1583

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  • Graziano Ruffini
Graziano Ruffini
University of Florence, Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts, Italy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4403/jlis.it-12451

Published 2018-05-15

Keywords

  • Early modern books; Book trade; Book costs; Cristoforo Zabata; Antonio Orero

How to Cite

Ruffini, Graziano. 2018. “A Sale of Books in Genoa in 1583”. JLIS.It 9 (2):114-65. https://doi.org/10.4403/jlis.it-12451.
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Abstract

The article, based on archival sources, examines a sale of books held in Genoa in 1583 between two booksellers: Cristoforo Zabata and Antonio Orero. Most of these books had been previously acquired in Venice. The article provides an accurate analysis of book prices according to subject: law, literature, history, medicine and so on. The survey also highlights costs with regard to the number of sheets, format and language, thus providing a set of information useful for further comparative cross-regional studies. The appendix includes a transcription of the source along with a bibliographic identification of the books enlisted.

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