Live auction - Lot 1325
Censorship in the Age of Enlightenment
[Censorship - Low Countries]
Catalogue des livres défendus par la Commission impériale et royale, jusqu’à l’année 1786.
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Lot description
Brussels, [E. Flon], 1788
8vo: [2]-91 pp.
Mod. quarter vellum, marbled paper on covers, blue edges. Nice copy.
Rare and important catalogue of books prohibited by the Austrian government, providing a wealth of information on the intellectual life in the Austrian Low Countries. This document was not to be made public and only delivered to the competent authorities.
Ref. Conlon 88:399. - Opac KBR. - Vercruysse, J. - "La débâcle de la censure dans les Pays-Bas autrichiens", in Materia actuosa (Paris 2000), pp. 669-682. - Not in STCV.
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