[PDF] Alphabetical Index To The Astor Library Or Catalogue With Short Titles Of The Books Now Collected And Of The Proposed Accessions As Submitted To The Trustees Of The Library For Their Approval eBook

Author : Astor Library New York
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780331540161

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Excerpt from Alphabetical Index to the Astor Library, or Catalogue, With Short Titles, of the Books Now Collected and of the Proposed Accessions, as Submitted to the Trustees of the Library for Their Approval: Jan. 1851 Aderung, F. H. Literatur der Sanskrit Sprache. Antonio, N. Bibliotheca Hispana vetus et nova. Assemann, J. S. Orientalische Bibliothek. Baretti, J. Italian Library, Account of best Authors, in Italian. Brydges, Sir E. Censura Lit. Titles, Abstracts, fine. Of old Eng. Books. D6. British Bibliographer, with Portraits. Do. Restituta. Extracts and Characters of Old Eng. Lit. Castro, J. Rodriguez dc. Biblioteca Espafiola - Escrit. Rab, c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Denise Gigante
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300265212

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The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America—booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen—Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country’s major public, university, and society libraries. A human tale of loss, obsession, and spiritual survival, this book reveals the magical power books can have to bring people together and will be an absorbing read for anyone interested in what makes a book special.