ISBN: 9780226833170 - The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain (8 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 262pp. Black boards, silver lettering. illustrated. As new in new unclipped pictorial jacket. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarians Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how the desire to catalog books coincided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the aspiration to control territory. Through a careful study of library culture in Spain and Morocco, close readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and maps Kimmel reveals how the booklovers dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself. Size: Octavo. Book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo. black papered boards, silver lettering, dust jacket, 262 pp.