Catalogus novus Omnium Librorum, qui nundinis Vernalibus Francofurti ad Moenum et Lipsiae anno XCVIII. celebratis...
Large publisher’s device on title. [30] leaves. Small 4to, attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards. Eisleben: H. Grosse, 1598.
The spring 1598 catalogue of the Leipzig and Frankfurt book fairs issued by Grosse; WorldCat locates no copy in North America. These fair catalogues created a revolution for the book trade. They were the best and, indeed, only source from which scholars and booksellers could discover when and by whom any particular book had been published.
The “catalogues represent the first international bibliographies of a periodic character, attempting to list every six months all new publications issued in Europe, and they can... More