The bookshop of the world: making and trading books in the Dutch golden age

Prelude: making room for books --

Part I. A new republic. Beginnings --

A poisonous place --

News Cycles --

To the ends of the earth --

Part II. Pillars of the trade. The marketplace of devotion -- Schoolmaster Bartjens -- The life academic --

The men on the cushions --

Part III. True freedoms. The dangerous pleasures of leisure --

Art and power --

Bookshop of the world --

The art of collecting

Part IV. Catastrophe and redemption.

Boundaries --

Our learned friends --

The business press --

The golden trade --

Timeline --

Endnotes --

Bibliography --

List of illustrations --

Acknowledgements --

Index.