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A collection of seventeenth-century book sale catalogues IN THEIR recent pioneer study of the distribution of books by catalogue, Pollard and Ehrman have referred to a collection of booksellers' catalogues in Merton College Library, Oxford, which had hitherto been known mainly to those privileged to have been acquainted with that library personally.1 This paper is intended to amplify thcir remarks by listing those catalogues in more detail and by drawing attention to certain contemporary annotations in them. The majority of these catalogues are Elzevicrs and they are, as Pollard and Ehrman rightly state, 'rare books by any standard'. As wcll as being publishers, the Elzeviers were, in modern parlance, new and second-hand booksellers, dcaling in both individual items and complete private libraries. It is not at all clear when the Elzeviers first began to sell books by auction from printed catalogues. The records are scanty. The earliest such cata- logue listed by Pollard and Ehrman is dated r 593 . It is known that Louis II Elze- vier secured the privilege to sell books by auction in the Groote Zaal at The Hague, in March 1596. Willcms, the principal bibliographer of the Elzevicr presses, believed that Louis I
Quaerendo – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1971
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