Annotated transcription of Pieter de Graeff's book auction catalogue (9 July 1709)

Annotated transcription of Pieter de Graeff's book auction catalogue (9 July 1709). Full title: Catalogus Librorum Viri Amplissimi Petri De Graaff (dum viveret) Toparchae In Zuydt-Polsbroeck, Purmerland, Ilpendam, &c. &c. Urbis Amstelodamensis Scabini &c. Quorum auctio habebitur in Aedibus Viduae T. Boom, & haeredum H. Boom. Op de Cingel by de Jan-Roonpoorts Tooren. Die Martis 9. Julii MDCCIX. Amstelodami, In Officina Bomiana Ubi Catalogi distribuuntur. National Library of Russia, St Petersburg (NL: 16.133.9.36). Scanned copy: Brill Book Sales Catalogue Online. 

The transcription lists the books’ identified full titles with the authors’ names accompanied by their VIAF ID's to facilitate identification and disambiguation. Similarly, the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) has been used to facilitate the identification of the publication places. Matches with the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) and the Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN) are also provided.

This dataset is analysed and discussed in C. Piccoli, Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707) and his treffelyke bibliotheek. Exploring and Reconstructing an Early Modern Private Library as a Book Collection and as a Physical Space (Leiden: Brill, 2025), and published as supplementary material of this monograph.

Author statement:
Chiara Piccoli: Conceptualization; research & analysis; books' identification (Theologici, Juridici, Medici & Philosophici; Miscellanei); USTC, STCN and TNG matches; groupings by and identifications of formats, languages, subjects; notes; links to digitized copies; data curation.
Bart Reuvekamp: First transcription; books' identification (Theologici).