Author: Linnean Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Catalogue of the Natural History Library of the Linnean Society of London ...: Separate works and papers arranged under the names of authors. Part II. Transactions of societies, journals and Supplement to Part I. Part III. Additions from July 1866 to June 1876
Author: Linnean Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Biographical Catalogue
Author: Society of FriendsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth
Author: John NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Author: Edward Wilson-LeePublisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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.
Jefferson's Books
Author: Douglas L. WilsonPublisher: University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781882886036
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A chronicle of Thomas Jefferson's passion for reading and building his library.
Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum...
Author: British museumThomas Jefferson's Library
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the Library of the University of Vermont, Burlington
Author: University of Vermont. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
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