Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe: French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets

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bibliography primary sources Manuscript Sources neuchâtel This book is based primarily on the papers of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), which are housed in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire de Neuchâtel. The documents cited in the book are too numerous for all of them to be listed individually . The following are those series of documents that the book draws on most extensively. First, the dossiers containing letters from the STN’s principal customers in Germanspeaking Europe: Deinet, Johann Conrad. Frankfurt. Ms. 1140. Fontaine, Charles and Matthias. Mannheim. Ms. 1152. Gerle, Wolfgang. Prague. Ms. 1156. Mettra, Louis-François. Mettra conducted his trade from two locations near the city of Cologne, in Deutz and in Münz, and then from Neuwied, a tiny Rhineland principality roughly fifty miles upstream from Cologne. He corresponded with the STN under a variety of company names. His letters are arranged in two separate dossiers: Ms. 1147, “Editeurs des ouvrages périodiques privilegiés de S. A. Electorale de Cologne”; and Ms. 1219, “Société Typographique de Cologne , Münz, and Neuwied.” Virchaux, Jean-Guillaume. Hamburg. Ms. 1228. Second, the dossiers of the Swiss German booksellers who sold the STN’s books at the Leipzig fairs: Flick, Johann Jacob. Basel. Ms. 1151. Haller, Albrecht Emanuel. Bern. Ms. 1165. Serini, C. A. Basel. Ms. 1215. Serini worked as an employee of the Société Typographique in Bern and later of Johann Jacob Flick in Basel before establishing his own trade. Letters from him to the STN are also contained in the dossiers of his employers. Société Typographique and Nouvelle Société Typographique de Berne. Ms. 1222. 356 bibliography Third, letters that associates or employees of the firm sent back to the home office during business trips to Germany. The most important such letters are those of Bosset de Luze, one of the STN’s associates, who traveled through the German Rhineland in the summer of 1779, and Victor Durand l’aîné, the STN’s commis voyageur, who journeyed across large areas of German-speaking Europe in the summer and autumn of 1788. Bosset de Luze, Abraham. Ms. 1125. Durand, Victor. Ms. 1145. Finally, in addition to those letters that the STN received, the Neuchâtel archives contain two crucial series of internal company documents, preserved in the form of folio volumes: Copies de lettres. Ms. 1095–1112. These volumes contain copies of the letters that the STN sent to its correspondents. The STN maintained one series of volumes for France, another for countries other than France. The latter have survived, with some gaps, for the period from 1769 to 1781, and without any gaps, from 1786 to 1790. Livres de commissions. Ms. 1016–21. These volumes record, without any gaps, the orders that the STN received and the shipments that it made for the period from early 1774 to mid-1785. hamburg For additional information on Jean-Guillaume Virchaux, the STN’s correspondent in Hamburg, I consulted various documents in the State Archives in Hamburg: Französisch-Reformierte Gemeinde, 22: 322; 23: 49; 37: 88. Kämmerei I, 214, vol. 128, p. 323. Wedde I, 29, vol. 39, p. 59. Senat, Cl. VIII, Nr. X, 1785, vol. 1, pp. 300–301a, 303b, 309a; 1786, vol. 1, p. 193b. paris After going bankrupt in Hamburg, Virchaux established himself in Paris. I discovered various documents in Parisian archives pertaining to his political activities during the Revolution: Archives Nationales. DXXIX bis carton 33, dossier 348; and carton 34, dossier 353. Préfecture de Police. AA 9, folio 50; AA 32, folio 42. berlin After publishing a French translation of Das Leben und die Meinungen des Herrn Magister Sebaldus Nothanker, the best-selling German novel by the Berlin author and publisher Friedrich Nicolai, the STN sent Nicolai a letter that was not entered in its Copies de lettres. The original of that letter, dated 1 September 1774, is contained in Nicolai’s papers in Berlin: Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbestiz Berlin: Volume 71, Nicolai Briefwechsel, Nachlass Nicolai. bibliography 357 Printed Sources To supplement the manuscript sources in the Neuchâtel archives, I drew on two series of printed documents: The Leipzig Fair Catalogues: Allgemeines Verzeichniss derer Bücher, welche . . . entweder ganz neu gedruckt, oder sonst verbessert, wieder aufgelegt worden sind. The Leipzig catalogues contained separate sections listing books written in languages other than German and Latin. Those sections, which appear under the...