Author: Edwin Thomas Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miridae
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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 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:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalogue of the Capsidae ...
Author: Edwin Thomas Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miridae
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miridae
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Catalogue of the New-York State Library
Author: New York State Library (Albany).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Catalogue of that Portion of the Private Library of Samuel Lane Boardman Relating to American and Local History, Biography etc., To Be Sold by Auction Nov. 27th and 28th, 1883
Author: Samuel Lane Boardman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385309549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385309549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of the Choice, Curious, and Extensive Library of the Late George Nassau
Author: Robert Harding Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University
Author: Brown University. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library
Author: Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of The Franklin Institute
Author: Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description