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

Appendix A. STN Trade with Booksellers in Germany, 1770–1785

a p p e n d i x a STN Trade with Booksellers in Germany, 1770–1785 Location and Total Shipments Booksellers in Each Location and Total Shipments Mannheim (36) Charles and Matthias Fontaine (27) Christian Schwan (6) Nouvelle Librairie de la Cour (3) Hamburg (29) Jean-Guillaume Virchaux (29) Frankfurt (14) Johann Conrad Deinet (12) Heirs of Esslinger (1) Heinrich Ludwig Brönner (1) Prague (14) Wolfgang Gerle (14) Dresden (12) Conrad Walther (12) Cassel (10) Jean-Frédéric Hemmerde (10) Cleve (9) J. G. Baerstecher (6) G. B. Hoffmann (3) Münz/Deutz (near Cologne) (8) Louis-François Mettra (8) Bad Homburg (near Frankfurt) (6) Karl de Grandmesnil (6) Berlin (6) Samuel Pitra (6) Ulm (4) Albrecht Friedrich Bartholomai (4) Nuremberg (2) Joseph Ehrenreich Ammermüller (2) Neuwied (1) Louis-François Mettra (1) Leipzig (1) Philipp Erasmus Reich (1) This table is based primarily on two documentary sources: the STN’s Brouillard A (ms. 1033), which spans the period from early 1770 to early 1773, and its Livres de commissions (ms. 1016–21), which span the period from early 1774 to mid-1785. That leaves a hiatus of one year, from early 1773 to early 1774. For that period, the data are derived either from the STN’s Rencontre du magasin (ms. 1000) or from its Copies de lettres (ms. 1099). To assess the information contained in the table, one needs to bear in mind that a “shipment” (envoi) does not constitute a consistent unit of measurement . Shipments that the STN made to Hamburg, for example, were almost always larger than those that it made to Mannheim, if only because the distance from Neuchâtel to Hamburg was so much greater than the distance to Mannheim. It did not pay to send a crate of books to Hamburg unless the crate weighed more than one hundred pounds. Even crates that the STN sent to nearby locations, however, had to weigh at least fifty pounds, for otherwise they could not be expedited through the normal commercial shipping channels: in a wagon (voiture) when traveling by land, in a cargo ship (bateau) when traveling by water. Orders that were too small to form crates of minimum weight had to be sent as parcels (paquets) through the postal service , which most booksellers judged to be prohibitively expensive. Rather than send a parcel of books through the postal service, the STN would usually do one of two things when it received an order that was too small to fill a crate of minimum weight: either it would add some unordered books to bring the crate up to the minimum weight, or it would enclose the order with another shipment that it was making to the same destination. Five of the orders that Christian Schwan in Mannheim placed in 1772 and two of the orders that Samuel Pitra in Berlin placed in that same year were too small to form crates of minimum weight. The STN enclosed Schwan’s orders with crates that it was sending to Fontaine in Mannheim; it enclosed Pitra’s with some small packages that it was sending to Lentulus, the Prussian governor of Neuchâtel who resided in Berlin. Orders that were enclosed with other shipments have not been counted as separate shipments. In 1780, the STN made two very large shipments of books worth more than 2,000 livres each to two correspondents in western Germany: to the bookseller Friedrich Jacob Röder in Wesel in the lower Rhine and to a nonprofessional bookseller named Jean-Gérard Bruère in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt. All of those books, however, the STN sent for its own account, and hardly any of them were ever sold. The two shipments to Röder and Bruère have not, therefore, been included in the table, nor have several small shipments of Bibles that the STN made to Protestant pastors in the landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel, to the pastor Roques in Hanau, and to the pastor Isaac Maurice Lagisse in Cassel. The table represents only the STN’s trade with professional booksellers. 276 appendix a STN Trade with Booksellers in Germany 277 Finally, there are three slightly ambiguous cases that bear mentioning. The first concerns an order that Heinrich Bender in Mannheim placed in 1779. The STN filled that order, but it sent the books to a merchant in Mannheim along with instructions not to...