Giuseppe Remondiniun ejemplo de venta de libros en la Italia del siglo XVIII

Abstract

From the mid-17th Century to well into the 19th the Remondini family was one of the pillars of the Italian publishing world. In 1785, Giuseppe Remondini republished Catalogus recens in varias classes, of which a sole copy is conserved in Spain in the Complutense University’s Historical Library, with the identification BH FLL 22600. This catalogue includes more than 4000 titles in Latin and Italian, on totally different subjects and each of them dated between 1552 and 1785, which the editor and his sons had for sale during that year in their Venetian shop. One of the catalogue’s peculiarities is its distribution of the books in “Classes”, as Remondini editions, non-Remondini editions, “Nuevo Rezado” and "Libri da risma" (broadsheets). It is accompanied by a second catalogue, with more than 700 titles of books in French. The rarity of the editions it describes, the size of the shop’s stock, the authors’ names and the titles of the books that are registered show that Remondini and his family were at the forefront of book production, distribution and trade in Italy and, by extension, in the Europe of the Ancien Régime.