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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Publishing Strategies -- 1 Practitioners, Pills and the Press: Publishing Strategies in the Dutch Medical Market (c.1660-c.1770) -- 2 School Books, Public Education and the State of Literacy in Early Modern Catalonia -- 3 The Cometary Apparition of 1743/44: Periodical Journals in the Holy Roman Empire and Their Communicative Role -- Part 2 Censorship and Evasion -- 4 A Peculiar Case of Entrepreneurial Bravery: The First Edition of Galileo Galilei's Collected Works in the Context of Mid-seventeenth-century Publishing and Censorship -- 5 Persecuted in the Spanish Colonies: Inquisitorial Censorship and the Circulation of Medical and Scientific Books in New Spain and New Granada -- 6 The Troubles of a Protestant Bookseller in a Catholic Market: The Nuremberg Bookseller Johann Friedrich Rüdiger (1686-1751) and the Prague Book Trade -- 7 Disclosing False Imprints: a New Look at Eighteenth-Century French Printed Production -- Part 3 Auctions, Collectors and Catalogues -- 8 Early Modern English Parish Libraries: Collecting and Collections in the Francis Trigge Chained Library and the Gorton Chest Parish Library -- 9 'Libri Anglici': English Books in Danish and Dutch Library Collections, c.1650-1720 -- 10 The Government at Auction: Urban Policy and the Market for Books in Eighteenth-Century Lübeck -- 11 Philosophie or Commerce? Classification Systems in Eighteenth-Century French Private Library Catalogues -- 12 Sir Hans Sloane's Collection of Books and Manuscripts: an Enlightenment Library? -- Index.

This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries.