A General Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Old Books
Author | : William Strong |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1822 |
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Author | : William Strong |
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Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1822 |
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Author | : Firm Leonard & Co. |
Publisher | : Rarebooksclub.com |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781230134307 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...by Riviere. Beautiful copy. W. Pickering, London, 1834 434 Luther, Martin. The Way to Prayer. Small 4to., cloth, uncut., Portrait on India paper. Scarce. ' W. Pickering, London, 1846 435 Luther, Martin. Book of Vagabonds and Beggars. With a Vocabulary of their Language; edited by Martin Luther in 1528; now first translated into English, with Introduc-tion and Notes by J. C. Holten. Small 4fo., half morocco, uncut. Beautifully printed, with ornamental headings and initials, by Whittingham. London, 1860 436 Lyndsay, Sir David. The Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, in Commendation of Vertue, and Vituperation J of Vice. Maide be Sir David Lindesay. 8vo., calf. Privately Printed: and only 30 copies. Edinburgh, 1802 Thomas Jolley's copy; with his autograph and book-plate. 437 Lyndsay, Sir David. The Poetical Works; a new edition, corrected and enlarged; with a Life of the Author, Pref-atory Dissertations, and an Appropriate Glossary, by George Chalmers. 3 vols. 8vo., half calf, uncut edges. Very scarce in this state. Best Edition. London, 1806 JIABERLY, J. The Print Collector. An Introduction to the Knowledge necessary for forming a Collection of An-cient Prints. Containing Suggestions as to the mode of commencing Collector, the Selection of Specimens, the Prices and Care of Prints; also, Notices of the Marks of Proprietorship used by Collectors, Remarks on the Ancient and Modern practice of the art, and a Catalogue raisonne of Books on Engravings and Prints. 4fo., cloth, uncut. London, 1844 t 439 Macray, "William Dunn. A Manual of British Historians to I 7 A. D.I GOO. Containing a Chronological Account of the early Chroniclers and Monkish Writers, their Printed works and unpublished MSS., with the Period of each history, and when the...
Author | : Clarke, booksellers, Cincinnati |
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Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1887 |
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Author | : John Stacy |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Booksellers' catalogs |
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Author | : Adam Hilger Ltd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781361022139 |
Author | : Robert Clarke & Co |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Booksellers' catalogs |
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Author | : Bernard Quaritch |
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Total Pages | : 1156 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Books |
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Author | : Bernard Quaritch |
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Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Author | : Longman (Firm) |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1814 |
Genre | : Rare books |
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Author | : Edward Wilson-Lee |
Publisher | : Scribner |
Total 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.