Biblioteka Golovninykh
Katalog
(
Knigi 1,2
)
en
translation: Library of the Golovnins - Catalog (Books 1,2)
Illustrations and maps
696 pp., color illustrations
215 USD
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Book one "Library of the Golovnins": the catalog contains a bibliographic and historical-bibliological description of books, manuscripts, graphic sheets, original drawings that were previously part of the Golovnins library, indicating the presence of owner records, bookplates, marginals, as well as information about the preservation and location of each document ... The book reproduces title pages of editions, copies of prints and watercolors in the form of illustrations. Book two "V.M. Golovnin. Catalog of books": facsimile reproduction, which for the first time publishes a facsimile of a handwritten "catalog of books" compiled by the Russian navigator and memoirist Vice-Admiral V.M. Golovnin in the first quarter of the 19th century and stored in the State Archive of the Navy. The publication of the catalog is accompanied by a transcript of the text of the manuscript and a commentary to it.
