Joyas de la BIblioteca Nacional del Perú
By: [edición general, Hugo Neira ; con la asistencia de Pedro Cavassa y Martha Hurtado]
Contributors: Biblioteca Nacional (Peru)
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: BIblioteca Nacional del Perú; Banco Central de Reserva del Perú
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lima
Language: spa
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789972874994
Subjects: Biblioteca Nacional (Peru); Bibliography; Catalogs; Rare books; Early printed books
Description: Grand bibliography of the most valuable printed material and documents in custody of the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (BNP). This anthological edition was coordinated by Irma López y Hugo Neira (actual Director), and beautifully illustrated with color photographs by Yonel Campos that depict the binding, design and illustrations of each of these bibliographic treasures. The collection includes a copy of the "Doctrina Cristiana y Catecismo para Instrucción de Indios", the first book printed in Perú and South America as well as also invaluable documents like the correspondence and manuscripts of former presidents: Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Nicolás de Pirola and Manuel Pardo; of literates José María Eguren, Ricardo Palma, Abraham Valdelomar, César Vallejo and José María Arguedas; and other personalities like José de la Riva Agüero, Julio C. Tello, Manuel González Prada and Juan Mejía Baca. The collection is classified in 15 different topics: colonial baroque, catechisms and languages, costumes, imaginary fauna, history, Humboldt, imaginary Incas, women and "tapadas", colonial intellectuals and ethnologists, traveling and maps.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Breve historia universal del libro; title: El XVI, en el asombro del mundo / Hugo Neira; title: Libros e Impresores en el Virreinato / Irma López de Castilla; title: Gobernar el mundo desde una silla: libros y cultura jurídica en el virreinato del Perú / Mauricio Novoa; title: La virgen y las dos torres. El historiador y la mundialización / Serge Gruzinski; title: Bibliotecas peruanas del siglo XVIII / Pablo Macera; title: Don Antonio de León Pinelo y su obra; title: El paraíso en el nuevo mundo (1650); title: Pasión y muerte de la Biblioteca Nacional de Lima / Raúl Porras Barrenechea amongst others