Author: Marchand, Prosper
Title: Book history 1709 | Ex libris 'Prosperi Marchand, bibliopolae Parisiensis, via Jacobaea', gravure, 6x8 cm., gesigneerd B. Picart 1709.
Description: Prosper Marchand was een Amsterdams boekverkoper, wonende in de St. Jacobsstraat. Zijn zaak heette 'In den Parijschen boekwinkel'. M13253Prosper Marchand (11 March 1678 – 14 June 1756) was an 18th-century French bibliographer, who moved to the Dutch Republic in December 1709. He became a famous annotator and publisher of philosophical, religious and historical works, skilled in systematic table of contents and bibliographic indexes. Together with Bernard Picart he took refuge in The Hague for matters of religion and moved to Amsterdam in the year after. He abandoned the profession of bookseller around 1713. From 1713 to 1723, he was proofreader at Fritsch and Böhm in Rotterdam, then editor at the Journal littéraire, founded by Willem Jacob 's Gravesande and Justus van Effen.

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