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Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516), abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Sponheim and later of St. James in Würzburg, is honored with the title of “father of bibliography” for the first systematic bibliography of the printing age. Trithemius lists 7,000…

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Before he was thirty, Konrad Gesner (1516–1565), professor of physics and natural science and a doctor of medicine in his native Zurich, compiled the Bibliotheca universalis, the first international bibliography of authors writing in Latin, Greek,…

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The first edition of the first French national bibliography and literary biography. François Grudé (1552–1592) at an early age began gathering a large personal collection of books in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish and Italian. Grudé issued a…

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The study of incunabula (books printed during the infancy of printing, from the Latin cunae, “cradle”) has been a cornerstone of bibliographic research for centuries. This work by Cornelis à Beughem (fl. 1678–1710), is recognized as the first…

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In 1920 noted bibliographer Marie-Louis Polain (1866–1933) was asked to compile a catalogue of the incunabula in Belgian libraries, and to that end Polain began to collect typographic samples of early printed books from Belgium, photographic…

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The first comprehensive bibliography of Arabic texts and scholarly works on Arabic language and literature printed in Europe from 1505 to 1810, Bibliotheca Arabica remains the standard reference on the subject. Most of the books described by…

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One of the founding members of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, White Kennett (1660–1728), antiquarian, topographer, and bishop of Peterborough, hoped to prepare a history of the propagation of Christianity in the…

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The detailed bibliographical entries in this influential bibliography on demonology, witchcraft, and the occult are accompanied by an extensive commentary in which the author argues vehemently against the belief in witches and other supernatural…

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On May 3, 1515, during the Fifth Lateran Council, Pope Leo X issued the Bulla super impressione librorum, the first universally accepted papal censorial decree. All writings without exception were subjected to ecclesiastical censorship, and the…

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In this watercolor portrait by Thomas Nast (1840–1902), signed and dated 1867, journalist and satirist David Ross Locke (1833–1888) is seen walking past the shop sign of Lee & Shepard, a prominent Boston publisher. Nast greatly admired Locke’s work…
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