Bibliotheca universalis

Not to be confused with Taschen Bibliotheca Universalis.

Bibliotheca universalis (1545–1549) was the first truly comprehensive "universal" listing of all the books of the first century of printing. It was an alphabetical bibliography that listed all the known books printed in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew.[1] It listed 10,000 titles by 1,800 authors. [2]

  1. ^ Eisenstein 1980, p. 97–98.
  2. ^ Blair, Ann. “The Capacious Bibliographical Practice of Conrad Gessner.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 111, no. 4 (2017): 445–68.