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Bibliotheca universalis

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  • Conrad Gesner.
    In Conrad Gesner: Publications

    In 1545 Gesner published his Bibliotheca universalis, the first bibliography of its kind, listing about 1,800 authors alphabetically with the titles of their works, annotations, evaluations, and comments on the nature and merit of each entry. This monumental reference was followed in 1548 by the encyclopaedic work Pandectarum sive Partitionum…

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