Luchtmans Archive (Announcement)

[todd p bludeau <idc-us@mindspring.com>]

INTERNATIONAL BOOK TRADE IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES

Part II: Private accounts and other documents, 1702-1836, from the
Luchtmans Archive

Location: University Library Amsterdam, Library of the Netherlands Book
Trade Association

The Luchtmans archive is unique in the Dutch Republic and one of the rare
survivors for this period in all Europe. The family goes back to the
mid-seventeenth century when Jordaen Luchtmans was a publisher of Pierre
Bayle (Dictionnaire historique et critique).  The firm became famous for its
şauctores classiciş and as an academic and city printer.  In 1845 the firm
was completely incorporated into E.J. Brill in Leiden, until then only a
printer. It marked the rise of Brill as a scholarly publishing house that
exists to this day.
Luchtmans had contacts with booksellers throughout the Dutch Republic and
with many abroad, so that national and international channels of
communication in
this trade can be traced through the material. An important series within
the archive is the Booksellers' Accounts (Boekverkopers boeken), where these
contacts are inventoried in a balance-sheet format. 

Virtually all booksellers of any importance in the Dutch Republic can be
followed through these accounts, as well as colleagues in other countries. These
accounts form Part I of this collection.

Part II consists of the series of private accounts of the company, business
correspondence in several languages, the bookkeeping and assorted other
documents. Also included are two series of publisher's catalogues, one
printed and the other handwritten, many with annotations and journals kept
by members of the firm while traveling. 

This part completes the micropublication of this archive.

Part II available on 473 microfiches
Order no.: M310-II
Special Introductory Price: Dfl. 4,995 [c. $2700](until 31 December 1999)

Part I also available on 346 microfiches
Order no.: M310-I
Price: Dfl. 4,285 [c. $2315]


Also of related interest:


CORRESPONDENCE OF MARC-MICHEL REY, 1747-1778

Location: University Library Amsterdam, Library of the Netherlands Book
Trade Association

This small but much consulted collection contains correspondence addressed
to the Genevan-born bookseller and publisher, Marc-Michel Rey, who was
established
in Amsterdam in the Dutch republic in the second half of the eighteenth
century and much involved in Enlightenment culture and politics. Among
others, he published the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 

Available on 11 microfiches
Order no.: M479
Price: Dfl. 295 [c. $160]



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