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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana
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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana
Author: Charles Spencer Earl of SunderlandPublisher:
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Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana. Sale Catalogue of the Truly and Very Extensive Library of Printed Books Known as the Sunderland Or Blenheim Library Comprising a Remarkable Collection of the Greek and Roman Classic Writers in First Early and Rare Editions. A Large Series of Early Printed Bibles and Testaments in Various Languages. A Few Ancient and Important Mss
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres
Author: Publisher: Ed. de Bruxelles
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France
Author: Jotham ParsonsPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Coinage and currency—abstract and socially created units of value and power—were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France, Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies centralized monetary administration, expanding its role in the emerging modern state during the sixteenth century and assuming new powers as an often controversial repository of theoretical and administrative expertise. The Cour des Monnaies, Parsons shows, played an important role in developing the contemporary understanding of money, as a source of both danger and opportunity at the center of economic and political life. More practically, the Monnaies led generally successful responses to the endemic inflation of the era and the monetary chaos of a period of civil war. Its work investigating and prosecuting counterfeiters shone light into a picaresque world of those who used the abstract and artificial nature of money for their own ends. Parsons’s broad, multidimensional portrait of money in early modern France also encompasses the literature of the age, in which money’s arbitrary and dangerous power was a major theme.
Sixteenth-Century Imprints in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania
Author: M. A. ShaaberPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512807249
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
A catalogue of the C16th imprints in the University of Pennsylvania libraries, running to approximately 10,000 items.
French Vernacular Books / Livres vernaculaires français (FB) (2 vols.)
Author: Andrew PettegreePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047422449
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description
This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.
A Catalogue of a Curious and Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Classes of Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Facing the Revocation
Author: Carolyn Chappell LougeePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190241314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Facing the Revocation tells the story of one French Protestant (Huguenot) family, the Champagnés, as they faced the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which criminalized their religion in 1685. In this sweeping family saga, Carolyn Chappell Lougee narrates how the Champagné family's persecution and Protestant devotion unsettled their economic advantages and social standing. The family provides a window onto the choices that individuals and their kin had to make in these trying circumstances, the agency of women within families, and the consequences of their choices. Lougee traces the lives of the family members who escaped; the kin and community members who decided to stay, both complying with and resisting the king's will; and those who resettled in Britain and Prussia, where they adapted culturally and became influential members of society. It challenges the way Huguenot history has been told for 300 years and thereby offers new insights into the reign of Louis XIV.
Catalogue of the Famous Library of Printed Books ... Collected by Henry Huth
Author: Henry HuthPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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