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| Titre : | Buying And Selling Medical Books In Early Eighteenth-Century Dublin (2017) |
| Auteurs : | Elizabethanne BORAN, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 32 2017) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 105-135 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | This article examines what was on the shelves of the medical marketplace in early eighteenth-century Dublin. It does so by analyzing the medical cohort in twenty-one auction and sales catalogues, printed in Dublin between 1695 and 1740. It explores this cohort from a number of perspectives: subject, format and language, and in so doing, argues that the Dublin booksellers of the early eighteenth century sought to respond to two growing medical markets: the lay vernacular market, which favoured therapeutic texts in English, and a learned medical market which preferred the costly Latin opera omnia of well-known physicians. An examination of the output of individual bookselling firms suggests that specialization was taking place in the medical marketplace of eighteenth-century Dublin. In an appendix it provides, for the first time, a full listing of the extant auction catalogues for the period, with the location of original copies. |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
