This catalogue offers the first comprehensive listing of all books published in Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Peru or in Spanish or Portuguese before 1601.
French Books III & IV offer a unique overview of what was printed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in France in languages other than French.
The taxonomically arranged catalogue that accompanied these books was a remarkable work, one that offered great insight into the broad and systematic nature of Jefferson's mind. Unfortunately, it was lost.
A sideways look at books that sheds light on the activities of authors, printers, and readers during the English Renaissance