Lost books : reconstructing the print world of pre-industrial Europe / edited by Flavia Bruni, Andrew Pettegree.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The legion of the lost : recovering the lost books of early modern Europe / Andrew Pettegree -- Part I. In the beginning : lost incunabula -- The Gutenberg Galaxy's dark matter : lost incunabula, and ways to retrieve them / Falk Eisermann -- Lost incunable editions : closing in on an estimate / Jonathan Green and Frank Mcintyre -- Part II. National case-studies -- Lost books of polyphony from Renaissance Spain / Jain Fenlon -- Lost books, lost libraries, lost everything? : a Scandinavian early modern perspective / Wolfgang Undorf -- In search of lost Fortuna : reconstructing the publishing history of the Polish book of fortune-telling / Justyna Kilia�nczyk-Zi�eba -- Lost print in England : entries in the Stationers' Company register, 1557-1640 / Alexandra Hill -- Survival factors of seventeenth-century hand-press books published in the southern Netherlands : the importance of sheet counts, Sammelb�ande and the role of institutional collections / Goran Proot -- Publicity and its uses : lost books as revealed in newspaper advertisements in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree -- Lost books and dispersed libraries in Sicily during the seventeenth century / Domenico Ciccarello -- Part III. Censorship and its consequences -- Lost issues and self-censorship : rethinking the publishing history of Guillaume Bud�e's De l'institution du prince / Christine Benevent and Malcolm Walsry -- The editorial history of a rare and forbidden Franciscan book of the Italian Renaissance : the Dialoga della unione spirituale di Dio con l'anima by Bartolomeo Cardoni / Michele Camaioni -- An unknown best-seller : the Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo / Rosa Marisa Borraccini -- The devil's trick : impossible editions in the lists of titles from the regular orders in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century / Roberto Rusconi -- On the track of lost editions in Italian religious libraries at the end of the sixteenth century : a numerical analysis of the RICI database / Giovanna Granata -- Part IV. Libraries, private and public -- Loss and meaning : lost books, bibliographic description and significance in a sixteenth-century Italian private library / Anna Giulia Cavagna -- Confiscated manuscripts and books : what happened to the personal library and archive of Hugo Grotius following his arrest on charges of high treason in August 1618? / Martine Julia van Ittersum -- Dispersed collections of scientific books : the case of the private library of Federico Cesi (1585-1630) / Maria Teresa Biagetti -- Lost in plain sight : rediscovering the library of Sir Hans Sloane / Alison Walker -- Book use and sociability in lost libraries of the eighteenth century : towards a union catalogue / Mark Towsey -- Part V. War and peace : the depredations of modem times -- Lost books of 'Operation Gomorrah' : rescue, reconstruction, and restitution at Hamburg's library in the Second World War / Jan L. Alessandrini -- Two centuries of looting and the grand Nazi book burning : the dispersed and destroyed libraries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth : historical losses and contemporary attempts at reconstruction / Tomasz Nastulczyk -- All is not lost : Italian archives and libraries in the Second World War / Flavia Bruni -- Tracing lost broadsheet ordinances printed in sixteenth-century Cologne / Saskia Limbach.