Author: Scott & O'Shaughnessy, IncPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Catalogue of an Extraordinary Collection of Books, Letters, Manuscripts
Author: Scott & O'Shaughnessy, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Catalogue of the ... Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings, of the Late Sir William Tite ...
Author: William TitePublisher:
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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Unique and Interesting Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Unique ... Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets. Collected and Arranged by J. R. Smith
Author: John Russell SmithList of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Item forms a comprehensive list of the British Museum, Department of Printed Books collection of catalogues of books sales and auctions held between 1676, the first time books were sold at aution in England, until the end of the ninteenth century.
Catalogue of the Collection of Books and Manuscripts which Formerly Belonged to the Rev. Thomas Prince, and was by Him Bequeathed to the Old South Church, and is Now Deposited in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library. Prince CollectionPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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.
Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts... formed by Guglielmo Libri
Author: Leigh Sotheby and WilkinsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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Author: Sir William Tite