Catalogue Of Old Books
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Author |
: Edward Wilson-Lee |
Publisher |
: Scribner |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2020-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781982111403 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1982111402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by : Edward Wilson-Lee
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
Author |
: Jack Baldwin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1348981930 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Catalogue of the Fifteenth-century Printed Books in Glasgow Libraries and Museums by : Jack Baldwin
Author |
: John Cole (bookseller.) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 1817 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:600061498 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis A catalogue of old books, with specimens now on sale by : John Cole (bookseller.)
Author |
: William Strong |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 86 |
Release |
: 1822 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0021887057 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis A General Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Old Books by : William Strong
Author |
: Sotheran |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 1852 |
ISBN-10 |
: UBBE:UBBE-00167996 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books by : Sotheran
Author |
: Angel Aparicio |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 640 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015066756951 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Catalogue of Rare Books by : Angel Aparicio
Author |
: Philip Gaskell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 438 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:72090032 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New Introduction to Bibliography by : Philip Gaskell
Author |
: Longman (Firm) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 1814 |
ISBN-10 |
: COLUMBIA:CU56587902 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis A General Catalogue of Valuable and Rare Old Books, in the Ancient and Modern Languages, and Various Classes of Literature by : Longman (Firm)
Author |
: Alfred Russell Smith |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 1880 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:590917258 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis A catalogue of rare, curious and valuable old books on sale by Alfred Russell Smith by : Alfred Russell Smith
Author |
: New York Hospital (NEW YORK) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 1829 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0019380244 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Library of the New York Hospital: and the regulations for the use of the same by : New York Hospital (NEW YORK)