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History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book

Finances and Business Practices

  • Abrahams, Israel and Charles E. Sayle
    “The Purchase of Hebrew Books by the English Parliment in 1647,” [with 20 contemporary book prices] Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 8 (1918) 63-77
    Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.E5 A2

  • Baruchson, Shifra
    “Money and Culture:  Financing Sources and Methods in the Hebrew Printing Shops in Cinquecento Italy,” La Bibliofilia 92 (2000) 23-39
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56

  • Baruchson-Arbib, Shifra
    “The Prices of Printed Hebrew Books in Cinquecento Italy,” La Bibliofilia 97.2 (1995) 149-61
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56

  • Baruchson-Arbib, Shifra
    “On the trade in Hebrew books between Italy and the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century,” [Hebrew] pp. 53-77 in, ממזרח וממערב : קובץ מחקרים בתולדות היהודים במזרח ובמגרב = East and Maghreb 5.  Researches in the History of the Jews in the Orient and North Africa (Ramat Gan:  Bar-Ilan University Press, 1986) ed. Ariel Toaff
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS135.T8 M53
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.T8 M53

  • Berger, Shlomo
    “Selling Books in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam: A Yiddish Sale Advertisement from circa 1760,” Zutot 5 (2008) 129-134
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .Z886
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187502108785806851

  • Bonfil, Robert
    “A contract for printing books in 19th century Livorno,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 64 (1992/3) 1089-94
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Bregoli, Francesca
    “Commerce and Jewish Culture.  The Business of Hebrew Publishing,” pp. 181-207 in, Mediterranean Enlightenment :  Livornese Jews, Tuscan culture, and eighteenth-century reform (Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2014) ed. Francesca Bregoli
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.I85 L5817 2014

  • Dotan-Ofir, Shalhevet
    “Advertising Yiddish Books: Solomon Zalman London's Koheles Shlomo,” Zutot 6 (2009) 61-70
    Katz Center – Stacks.  DS101 .Z886
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .Z886
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/docserver/15717283/v6n1_splitsection9.pdf?expires=1463675295&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=55ABEF07E1CED1C9775F2AB30A2F0C17

  • Fuks, Lajb and Renate G. Fuks-Mansfeld
    “The Financiers of Menasseh Ben Israel’s Printing House in Amsterdam, 1627-1655,” pp. 313-319 in, יד להימן קובץ מחקרים לזכר א"מ הברמן = The A. M. Habermann Memorial Volume (Lod : Mekhon Haberman le-meh?k?ere sifrut, 1983) ed. Zevi Malachi
    Van Pelt Library. PJ5016 .Y33 1983

  • Fuks-Mansfeld, Renate G.
    “The Hebrew Book Trade in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century,” [with some financials] pp. 155-68 in, Le Magasin de l'Univers = The Dutch Republic as the centre of the European book trade : papers presented at the International Colloquium, held at Wassenaar, 5-7 July 1990
    (Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1992) ed. Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck
    Van Pelt Library. Z358 .M33 1992

  • Fumagalli, Pier Francesco
    “Documenti sul commercio di libri ebraici nel Ducato di Milano,” La Rassegna Mensile di Israel 52,2-3 (1987) 345-356.
    http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=rassmensisrael

  • Heller, Marvin J.
    “The Hebrew book-trade as reflected in book catalogues,” pp. 241-56 in, Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book (Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2008)
    Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
    Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008

  • Lowry, Martin
    Book prices in Renaissance Venice:  The stockbook of Bernardo Giunti [price for one Hebrew Bible]
    Occasional Papers (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections) 5
    (Los Angeles:  Dept. of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, 1991)
    Van Pelt Library. Z340 .L68 1991

  • Lowry, Martin
    The World of Aldus Manutius: Business and Scholarship in Renaissance Venice
    Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1979
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. Z232.M3 L68 1979

  • Malone, Edward A
    “Learned Correctors as Technical Editors:  Specialization and Collaboration in Early Modern European Printing Houses,” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 20.4 (Oct 2006) 389-424
    http://jbt.sagepub.com/content/20/4/389.full.pdf+html

  • Nuovo, Angela
    The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
    Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013
    Van Pelt Library. Z340 .N857 2013
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628). Z340 .N857 2013

  • Offenberg, Adri K.
    “Some remarks on the date and original price of a rare Iberian Hebrew incunable,” Zutot 1 (2001) p. 114-117 (erroneous ill. corrected in vol. 2 (2002) 219)  
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .Z886
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/18750214

  • Pettas, William A.
    “The Cost of Printing a Florentine Incunable,” La Bibliofilia 75 (1973) 67-85
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56

  • Pollak, Michael
    “Production Costs in Fifteenth Century Printing,” Library Quarterly 39 (1969) 318-30
    Research Annex (LIBRA). Z671 .L713
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/4306023

  • Pollak, Michael
    “The Daily Performance of a Printing Press in 1476:  Evidence from a Hebrew Incunable,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1974) 66-76
    Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
    https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN000484997

  • Pollak, Michael
    “The Performance of the Wooden Printing Press,” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 42.2 (1972) 218 - 264
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4306163.pdf?acceptTC=true

  • Roberts, Julian and G.J. Toomer
    “The Fetherstone Catalogue of Hebrew Books,” Bodleian Library Record 19.1 (2006) 47-76 [in the year 1650, George Walker purchased 101 Hebrew imprints from Henry Fetherstone for Sion College, London]
    Research Annex (LIBRA). Z792.O94 B6

  • Rosenthal, Avraham
    “Some remarks on «The daily performance of a printing press in 1476»,” Gutenberg- Jahrbuch 54 (1979) 39-50
    Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
    https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN000488267

  • Schwarz, Arthur Z.
    “Eine Verkaufsbestätigung des Geršom Soncino,” Soncino Blätter 1 (1925/6) 14-15
    Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z6367 .S69

  • Simonsohn, Shlomo
    “A Contact for the Printing of Hebrew Books in Cremona,” [Hebrew], pp. 143-50 in, Scritti in Memoria di Umberto Nahon : saggi sull' ebraismo italiano (Jerusalem:  Sally Mayer Foundation, 1978) edd. Robert Bonfil et al.
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM42.N346 B664 1978

  • Simpson, Julianne
    “Selling the Biblia Regia: The Marketing and Distribution Methods for Christopher Plantin's Polyglot Bible,” pp. 27-55 in, Books for Sale: The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century (New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2009) edd. Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote
    Van Pelt Library. Z280 .B68 2009

  • Van Rooden, Peter T. and Jan Wim Wesselius
    “Two Early Cases of Publication by Subscription in Holland and Germany; Jacob Abendana’s Mikhlol  Yofi (1661) and David Cohen de Lara’s Keter kehunah (1667),” Quaerendo 16 (1986) 110-30
    Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
    http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006986x00125

  • Yaari, Abraham
    “A Safad Bookseller of the XVIth Century,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 25 (1949) 305-310
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
    Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

  • Yudlov, Isaac
    “A Document Regarding the Sale of Incunabulum in Naples in the Fifteenth Century,” [Hebrew] Asufot 10 (1995) 71-108.
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM1 .A79
    Van Pelt Library. BM1 .A79

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