Author: John Simco
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books, Prints, and Books of Prints, for 1792. Consisting of a Great Variety of Curious Articles, Selected from the Valuable Libraries which Have Been Sold During the Last Winter; Consisting of Antient MSS. and Missals, ... The Books are Now Selling, for Ready Money Only, ... by John Simco, ...
Author: John Simco
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640
Author: Alfred William Pollard
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages :
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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.
A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in the Bodleian Library
Author: Bodleian Library
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199519057
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199519057
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
Author: Raoul Lefèvre
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Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
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Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Resources for College Libraries
Author: Marcus Elmore
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835248556
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This seven-volume set offers a core collection of hand-selected titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject areas. Volumes are organized into broad subject areas such as Humanities, Languages and Literature, History, Social Sciences and Professional Studies, Science and Technology, and Interdisciplinary and Area Studies. The seventh volume provides helpful cross-referencing indexes which explain the relationship between RCL subject taxonomy and LC ranges. New to this edition are the inclusion of interdisciplinary subject areas and the selection of electronic resources and web sites essential for undergraduate library collections. Non-book selections will be easily identified by a graphic indicator included in the item record. All selections will be assigned an audience level marker indicating whether the title is most appropriate for lower-division undergraduate, upper-division undergraduate, faculty, or general readership. Records will also include a notation if they previously appeared in BCL3 (Books for College Libraries, 1988) or have been reviewed by Choice.
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835248556
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This seven-volume set offers a core collection of hand-selected titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject areas. Volumes are organized into broad subject areas such as Humanities, Languages and Literature, History, Social Sciences and Professional Studies, Science and Technology, and Interdisciplinary and Area Studies. The seventh volume provides helpful cross-referencing indexes which explain the relationship between RCL subject taxonomy and LC ranges. New to this edition are the inclusion of interdisciplinary subject areas and the selection of electronic resources and web sites essential for undergraduate library collections. Non-book selections will be easily identified by a graphic indicator included in the item record. All selections will be assigned an audience level marker indicating whether the title is most appropriate for lower-division undergraduate, upper-division undergraduate, faculty, or general readership. Records will also include a notation if they previously appeared in BCL3 (Books for College Libraries, 1988) or have been reviewed by Choice.
A Catalogue of Books Continued Printed and Published at London in Michaelmas-Term
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books Printed in England Since the Dreadful Fire of London, 1666 to the End of Michaelmas Term, 1695
Author: Robert Clavell
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Prints of Louise Bourgeois
Author: Deborah Wye
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870701535
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Her increasing recognition since then culminated with the selection of her work to represent the United States at the 1993 Venice Biennale.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870701535
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Her increasing recognition since then culminated with the selection of her work to represent the United States at the 1993 Venice Biennale.