Los libros latinos de una librería de provincias de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIIIcatálogo de Johann Gothfried Bauer

Resumo

In 1770, the Strasburg bookseller Johann Gothfried Bauer published his Catalogus librorum latinorum, whose rarity can be measured by the fact there is just copy in Spain, in the Complutense University’s Historical Library, numbered BH MD 5353(4). The Catalogue registers more than a thousand titles in Latin, on completely different subjects, which were mostly published after 1730 in Germany and the Netherlands. The publisher was clearly interested in presenting a selection, as he included not all Latin books from his shop, but only those which could interest collectors, for their originality or their excellence, and which shared the characteristic of being illustrated with calcographic images by important artists. The catalogue is in alphabetical order and registers a high proportion of specialist texts by contemporary German authors on medicine, botany and zoology, although it excludes maps and books on geography and music.