The Hague conference

[William A Kelly]

I agree of course with everything that Bob Patten has said about the SHARP
2006 conference. As a scholar of Low Countries (and German) bibliography it
was a pleasure as always to re-visit part of my intellectual playing
field.
I was particularly struck by the membership figures broken down by country,
which were presented to us at the AGM. It made a German colleague and
myself aware that Australia has almost double the number of members in
Scotland and Germany put together. Since returning I've been following his
advice by trying to encourage a much younger book historian to join SHARP.
Fingers crossed.

Dr. W.A. Kelly
Research Fellow
Scottish Centre for the Book
Napier University
Edinburgh

[John Beekman]

Reading these posts about the recent conference in Den Haag has got me to thinking - this may be a good group to reach out to for a favour.

The Jersey City Free Public Library has in it's local history collection a half-dozen or so colonial era Dutch documents, circa 1660-1690. The transcriptions run to about a half single spaced page each. We have, as noted, transcriptions but no translations. They are probably mostly deeds or some other form of contract, except for the longest which is probably a will, as it opens with "In den naeme das Heere[n] Amen".

What we need to find is someone or ones who would be willing to translate these for "public library rates" (i.e. for free) - perhaps a professor who could have students work on them for credit, or someone who would just be interested. Their name would of course be immortalized in the finding aid, and any other recognition would be favourably considered.

Any interested parties please contact me off-list at ***@jclibrary.org

Thanks, and look sharp!

John Beekman
New Jersey Room
Jersey City Free Public Library




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I agree of course with everything that Bob Patten has said about the SHARP
2006 conference. As a scholar of Low Countries (and German) bibliography it
was a pleasure as always to re-visit part of my intellectual playing
field.
I was particularly struck by the membership figures broken down by country,
which were presented to us at the AGM. It made a German colleague and
myself aware that Australia has almost double the number of members in
Scotland and Germany put together. Since returning I've been following his
advice by trying to encourage a much younger book historian to join SHARP.
Fingers crossed.

Dr. W.A. Kelly
Research Fellow
Scottish Centre for the Book
Napier University
Edinburgh

[Dijstelberge, P.]

In an early 18th century poem on the art of printing by the Dutch author JaKob Kortebrandt the following printers are mentioned (i.e. after the 15th century that has a canon of it's own), with a short description of their lives and achievements. Aldus Manutius, Henri Stephane, Christoffel Plantin, Willem Jansz and Joan Blaeu and the Elzevirs.
This concurs with earlier (Dutch) sales-catalogues in which only printers like Stephane or Manutius are mentioned.
I wonder if anyone noticed earlier versions of a canon like this one and it's local variations. I suppose Caxton to be in an English canon and so on.

[dhlueker]

Can anyone recommend a source that might have more details about the use of
premiums (everything from sewing machines to hunting watches) to attract
subscribers in the 19th-century in the United States? I'm particularly
interested in whether it was customary for a publication to pay for such
premiums or to enter into any kind of exchange for advertising.
Many thanks,
Donna Harrington-Lueker
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI

[Hans Gruys]

An auction held by Francois van der Plaats in Amsterdam on 24 September 1715 advertises on the titlepage: "[libri] multi ex typographia Aldorum, Gryphiorum, Stephanorum, Plantiniana, Elzeviriorum, &c."

The auction of the library of Everhard Rouse, Deventer 7 October 1728 has: "haúd pauci typis Stephanorum, Aldorum, Juntarum, Ascensii, Colinei, Gryphii, Plantinorum, Wecheliorum, Elzeviriorum, &c. descripti sunt.".

[Hans Gruys]

I can add a still earlier example: Catalogus librorum ... Phil. a Limborch. In qua bibliotheca videas editiones Stephanicas et Plantinianas bene multas, etc. Horum omnium fiet auctio Amstelaedami in taberna libraria Henr. Westenii, a.d. IV. Octobris CIƆIƆCCXII. et seqq.