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The catalogue of shipwrecked books : young Columbus and the quest for a universal library
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The catalogue of shipwrecked books : young Columbus and the quest for a universal library

by Edward Wilson-Lee

A study of Hernando Columbus's sixteenth-century ambition to create a universal library. It details his efforts to collect every printed work of his time and the pioneering organisational systems he developed to categorise and preserve global knowledge.

Accession 16753 ISBN 9780008146221 Publisher William Collins (publisher)
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