Author: Edward Stanford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History).
Author: British Museum (Natural History)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages :
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Catalogue of Books, Maps, Plates on America
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382193078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382193078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Catalogue of Watermarks in Italian Printed Maps, Ca 1540-1600
Author: David Woodward
Publisher: Olschki
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Olschki
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Catalogue of Books, Maps, Plates on America, and of a Remarkable Collection of Early Voyages
Author: Frederik Muller & Cie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Catalogue of Maps and Books for Tourists. Any Book Or Map Sent Post Free on Receipt of the Published Price in Stamps
Author: Edward Stanford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 Books, Maps, Plates on America, and of a Remarkable Collection of Early Voyages, Offered for Sale by Frederik Muller at Amsterdam ...
Author: Frederik Muller
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Maps
Author: James R. Akerman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Introducing readers to a wide range of maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures, this book confirms the vital roles of maps throughout history in commerce, art, literature, and national identity.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Introducing readers to a wide range of maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures, this book confirms the vital roles of maps throughout history in commerce, art, literature, and national identity.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal United Service Institution, (to April 30th, 1889.)
Author: Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Catalogue of Some Exceedingly Curious Books, Tracts and Old Maps, Relating to America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description