Bibliotheca universalis …

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Creator

Gesner, Konrad.

Title

Bibliotheca universalis …

Coverage

Zurich

Publisher

Christoph Froschauer

Date

1545

Description

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, and Hebrew. Published in four parts between 1545 and 1555, this list of 12,000 titles has been called “one of the epochal works in the annals of bibliography.”

Source

Gift of Leonard L. Mackall, 1928.