History of the Early Printed Hebrew Book: Circulation of Jewish Books

• Abrahams, Israel and Charles E. Sayle, “The Purchase of Hebrew Books by the English Parliment in 1647,” [with 20 contemporary book prices] Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 8 (1918) 63-77
• Baruchson-Arbib, Shifra, “The Prices of Printed Hebrew Books in Cinquecento Italy,” La Bibliofilia 97.2 (1995) 149-61
• Baruchson-Arbib, Shifra, “On the trade in Hebrew books between Italy and the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century,” [Hebrew] pp. 53-77 in, ממזרח וממערב : קובץ מחקרים בתולדות היהודים במזרח ובמגרב = East and Maghreb 5.  Researches in the History of the Jews in the Orient and North Africa (Ramat Gan:  Bar-Ilan University Press, 1986) ed. Ariel Toaff
• Baruchson, Shifra, Sefarim ṿe-ḳorʼim : tarbut ha-ḳeriʼah shel Yehude Iṭalyah be-shilhe ha-Renesans (Ramat Gan, 1993)
• Benayahu, Meir, “On the Printing and Distributing of Books in Italy,” [Hebrew] Sinai 34 (1934) 156-202
• Berger, Shlomo, “Selling Books in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam: A Yiddish Sale Advertisement from circa 1760,” Zutot 5 (2008) 129-134
• Breger, Jennifer, "Competition in the Hebrew Book Market," AB Bookman's Weekly, Feb. 27, 1995, 940.

Dotan-Ofir, Shalhevet
“Advertising Yiddish Books: Solomon Zalman London's Koheles Shlomo,” Zutot 6 (2009) 61-70
Katz Center – Stacks.  DS101 .Z886
Van Pelt Library. DS101 .Z886
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/docserver/15717283/v6n1_splitsection9.pdf?expires=1463675295&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=55ABEF07E1CED1C9775F2AB30A2F0C17

Fuks-Mansfeld, Renate G.
“The Hebrew Book Trade in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century,” [with some financials] pp. 155-68 in, Le Magasin de l'Univers = The Dutch Republic as the centre of the European book trade : papers presented at the International Colloquium, held at Wassenaar, 5-7 July 1990
(Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1992) ed. Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck
Van Pelt Library. Z358 .M33 1992

Fumagalli, Pier Francesco
“Documenti sul commercio di libri ebraici nel Ducato di Milano,” La Rassegna Mensile di Israel 52,2-3 (1987) 345-356.
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=rassmensisrael

Heller, Marvin J.
“The Hebrew book-trade as reflected in book catalogues,” pp. 241-56 in, Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book (Leiden; Boston:  Brill, 2008)
Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008

Lowry, Martin
Book prices in Renaissance Venice:  The stockbook of Bernardo Giunti [price for one Hebrew Bible]
Occasional Papers (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections) 5
(Los Angeles:  Dept. of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, 1991)
Van Pelt Library. Z340 .L68 1991

Offenberg, Adri K.
“Some remarks on the date and original price of a rare Iberian Hebrew incunable,” Zutot 1 (2001) p. 114-117 (erroneous ill. corrected in vol. 2 (2002) 219)  
Van Pelt Library. DS101 .Z886
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/18750214

Simpson, Julianne
“Selling the Biblia Regia: The Marketing and Distribution Methods for Christopher Plantin's Polyglot Bible,” pp. 27-55 in, Books for Sale: The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century (New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2009) edd. Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote
Van Pelt Library. Z280 .B68 2009

Sládek, Pavel, "A Sixteenth-Century Rabbi as a Published Author: The Early Editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe’s Levushim," in Connecting Histories; Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe (2019) 49-66

• Includes two pages discussing paratexts that describe what would be available to a reader in print in the 16th century.

Van Rooden, Peter T. and Jan Wim Wesselius
“Two Early Cases of Publication by Subscription in Holland and Germany; Jacob Abendana’s Mikhlol  Yofi (1661) and David Cohen de Lara’s Keter kehunah (1667),” Quaerendo 16 (1986) 110-30
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006986x00125

Yaari, Abraham
“A Safad Bookseller of the XVIth Century,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 25 (1949) 305-310
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57

Yudlov, Isaac
“A Document Regarding the Sale of Incunabulum in Naples in the Fifteenth Century,” [Hebrew] Asufot 10 (1995) 71-108.
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM1 .A79
Van Pelt Library. BM1 .A79