num_pages: 416
description: Created in 1539 the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fraction of one mans life spent collecting every book on every subject  including antique and modern worlds science and law as well as playing cards pornography and popular music.Who was Hernando Columbus and how did he achieve this?Set to the backdrop of Christopher Columbus paradigm-defining explorations of the New World and beyond and cutting across events of the Renaissance and Reformation this book follows Hernando Columbus bibliomania and curation of the first ever library of its kind.
language: English
title: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
publisher: William Collins