Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo. xii, 243 pp. 8 plates and 39 illustrations, a few of which are in color. Red cloth boards, with near fine dust jacket.

First edition. "The Renaissance Bazaar tells the story of this intense exchange of ideas, objects, and skills that shaped the European Renaissance. It also show how technology and co0mmercial developmnets such as printing, banking, and mapmaking were inextricably connected to the great art, literature, science, and discoveries that have come to typify the Renaissance."

Much information on the humanism in Italy, Italian scholarship into the Greek and Latin classics, commercial connections with the Arab world, and exchange of science and technology from the Middle East to Europe. The author, Jerry Brotton has published half-dozen books and is recognized as one of England's most popular historians.

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Bookseller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 875
Title: The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Author: Brotton, Jerry
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: Oxford
Date Published: 2002

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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.

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