Scientist, scholar & scoundrel : a bibliographical investigation of the life and exploits of Count Guglielmo Libri : mathematician, journalist, patriot, historian of science, palaeographer, book collector, bibliographer, antiquarian bookseller, forger and book thief (catalogue accompanies an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, New York, 28 March-24 May 2013)
New York, Grolier Club, 2013
(23 cm), xxii, 176 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 108 catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue of a collection assembled by the bookseller Jeremy Norman over a period of about 35 years. “The major gap in my collection is a portrait of Libri” (p.xii). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
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- Subjects
- Bibliographers - Libri (Guillaume), 1803-1869
- Authors/Creators
- Norman, Jeremy M., born 1945
- Other names
- Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869
- ISBN
- 9781605830414
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