The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Автор: Edward Wilson-Lee
Год издания: 0000
WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZEThe fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father’s flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe’ Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the YearThis is the scarcely believable – and wholly true – story of Christopher Columbus' bastard son Hernando, who sought to equal and surpass his father's achievements by creating a universal library. His father sailed across the ocean to explore the known boundaries of the world for the glory of God, Spain and himself. His son Hernando sought instead to harness the vast powers of the new printing presses to assemble the world’s knowledge in one place, his library in Seville.Hernando was one of the first and greatest visionaries of the print age, someone who saw how the scale of available information would entirely change the landscape of thought and society.His was an immensely eventual life. As a youth, he spent years travelling in the New World, and spent one living with his father in a shipwreck off Jamaica. He created a dictionary and a geographical encyclopaedia of Spain, helped to create the first modern maps of the world, spent time in almost every major European capital, and associated with many of the great people of his day, from Ferdinand and Isabel to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Durer. He wrote the first biography of his father, almost single-handedly creating the legend of Columbus that held sway for many hundreds of years, and was highly influential in crafting how Europe saw the world his father reached in 1492. He also amassed the largest collection of printed images and of printed music of the age, started what was perhaps Europe's first botanical garden, and created by far the greatest private library Europe had ever seen, dwarfing with its 15,000 books every other library of the day.Edward Wilson-Lee has written the first major modern biography of Hernando – and the first of any kind available in English. In a work of dazzling scholarship, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells an enthralling tale of the age of print and exploration, a story with striking lessons for our own modern experiences of information revolution and Globalisation.
Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Sebastien Le Clerc. P. 1
Автор: Charles-Antoine Jombert
Год издания:
Примечание: Каталог прозведений Себастьяна Леклерка. Полный вариант заголовка: «Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Sebastien Le Clerc... dessinateur & graveur du cabinet du roi : Dispose par ordre hist., suivant l'annee ou chaque piece a ete gravee, depuis 1650 jusqu'en 1714. Avec la vie de ce celebre artiste. P. 1».
Catalogue des livres de medecine
Автор: Группа авторов
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Catalogue des livres de medecine / qui se trouvent chez J.-B. Bailliere, Libraire, rue et vis-a-vis l'ecole de medecine, № 13 bis, a Paris ; Londres, Meme maison, 3 Bedford street, Bedford square ; a Bruxelles, au depot de la Librairie medicale francaise».
Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Sebastien Le Clerc. P. 2
Автор: Charles-Antoine Jombert
Год издания:
Примечание: Каталог прозведений Себастьяна Леклерка. Полный вариант заголовка: «Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Sebastien Le Clerc... dessinateur & graveur du cabinet du roi : Dispose par ordre hist., suivant l'annee ou chaque piece a ete gravee, depuis 1650 jusqu'en 1714. Avec la vie de ce celebre artiste. P. 2».
A catalogue of the animals of North America
Автор: John Reinhold Forster
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «A catalogue of the animals of North America : to which are added, short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities / by John Reinhold Forster».
A catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Автор: Группа авторов
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Полный вариант заголовка: «A catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain / methodically arranged, with an alphabetical index of authors, by William Harris».