Author: American Institute of Architects. Philadelphia Chapter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Year Book and Catalogue of the ... Annual Architectural Exhibition ...
Author: American Institute of Architects. Philadelphia Chapter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Annual Catalogue
Author: Illinois Wesleyan University
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Catalogue ...
Author: Illinois State University
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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 Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2636
Book Description
The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ephemerides
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ephemerides
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Report of the Register of Copyrights for the Fiscal Year ...
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Annual Catalogue of the University of Kansas
Author: University of Kansas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Year Book
Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
"List of the names of persons engaged in the various activities': v. 10, p. 243-257.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
"List of the names of persons engaged in the various activities': v. 10, p. 243-257.