Author: Leigh Sotheby and Wilkinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of the Splendid Manuscripts, Chiefly Upon Vellum, in Various Languages of Europe and the East, Formed by M. Guglielmo Libri
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts... formed by Guglielmo Libri
Author: Leigh Sotheby and Wilkinson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Splendid Manuscripts, Chiefly Upon Vellum ... Formed by M. Guglielmo Libri ... which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson ... on ... 28th of March, 1859, Etc
Author: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri Carrucci Dalla Sommaia (Count.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Catalogue of the extraordinary collection of splendid manuscripts... formed by Guglielmo Libri
Author: Leigh Sotheby and Wilkinson Londra
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Splendid Manuscripts
Author: Guillaume Libri
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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of ... Manuscripts
Author: Guillaume Libri
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Medieval Book
Author: Barbara A. Shailor
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Originally published by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1988.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Originally published by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1988.
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.
Auction catalogue, books of Guglielmo Libri, 25 April to 8 May 1861
Author: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (London)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri
Author: Guillaume Libri
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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