Bibliotheca Americana. A catalogue of a collection of books, pamphlets [&c.] for sale. [With]
Title | Bibliotheca Americana. A catalogue of a collection of books, pamphlets [&c.] for sale. [With] PDF eBook |
Author | John Russell Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets
Title | A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets PDF eBook |
Author | Anonymous |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2023-05-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368823345 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Good, the Great, and the Unfriendly
Title | The Good, the Great, and the Unfriendly PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Gardner Reed |
Publisher | American Library Association |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0838914985 |
A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, and Engraved Portaits, Illustrating the History and Geography of North and South America, and the West Indies, Altogether Forming the Most Extensive Collection Ever Offered for Sale
Title | A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, and Engraved Portaits, Illustrating the History and Geography of North and South America, and the West Indies, Altogether Forming the Most Extensive Collection Ever Offered for Sale PDF eBook |
Author | John Russell Smith (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | America |
ISBN |
Shakespeariana: A Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Etc. Illustrating the Life and Writings of Shakespeare
Title | Shakespeariana: A Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Etc. Illustrating the Life and Writings of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Catalogue of Books
Title | A Catalogue of Books PDF eBook |
Author | Henry George Bohn |
Publisher | New York : AMS Press |
Pages | 1134 |
Release | 1841 |
Genre | Bibliography Universal catalogs |
ISBN |
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Title | The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Wilson-Lee |
Publisher | Scribner |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2020-03-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1982111402 |
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.