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Folger call number: HC240.9.C6 C657 2015
Folger holdings ID: 500224
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Collection of 11 essays in English Includes bibliographical references and index
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Locating and dislocating value : a pragmatic approach to early modern and nineteenth-century economic practices / Bert De Munck and Dries Lyna -- PART I. EXPANDING MARKETS AND MARKET DEVICES. Labelling with numbers? : weavers, merchants and the valuation of linen in seventeenth-century Münster / Christof Jeggle -- Words of value? : art auctions and semiotic socialisation in the Austrian Netherlands (1750-1794) / Dries Lyna -- From a 'knowledgeable' salesman towards a 'recognizable' product? : questioning branding strategies before industrialization (Antwerp, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) / Ilja Van Damme -- Golden touchstones? : the culture of auctions of paintings in Brussels, 1830-1900 / Anneleen Arnout -- PART II. CONVENTIONS, MATERIAL CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS. The justness of aestimatio and the justice of transactions : defining real estate values in early modern Milan / Michela Barbot -- Vehicles of disinterested pleasure : French painting and non-remunerative value in the eighteenth century / Tomas Macsotay -- Usefulness, ornamental function and novelty : debates on quality in button and buckle manufacturing in northern Italy (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries) / Barbara Bettoni -- PART III. THE OLD AND THE NEW. 'Façon de Venise' : determining the value of glass in early modern Europe / Corine Maitte -- The veneer of age : valuing the patina of silver in eighteenth-century Britain / Helen Clifford -- The value of a collection : collecting practices in early modern Europe / Adriana Turpin
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author: Lyna, Dries