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Languages : en
Pages : 46
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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.
A Catalogue of a Rare and Curious Collection of Miscellaneous Books Embracing ..., a Collection of Miscellaneous Plays, Autograph Letters of Literary Characters, Hindoo Drawings, Portraits of Literary Men, Framed and Glazed, Etc
Author: Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
A catalogue of twenty-five thousand volumes of choice, useful, and curious books ... on sale
Author: John Russell SmithCatalogue of the Mathematical, Historical Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library ... Apr. 26, 1861 ...
Author: Guillaume LibriA Catalogue of the Books, Autographs, Engravings, and Miscellaneous Articles, belonging to the estate of the late John Allan
Author: John AllanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752580968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
Catalogue of the Choice, Curious, and Extensive Library of the Late George Nassau
Author: Robert Harding EvansPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Catalogue of some books omitted from the sale of the ... library of ... dr. Bliss ... also ... books ... from the library of a well-known Irish collector ... which will be sold by auction
Author: A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, with Indexes of Authors and Subjects, and a List of Historical Pamphlets, Chronologically Arranged
Author: Royal Institution of Great Britain. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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