The catalogue of shipwrecked books : young Columbus and the quest for a universal library /Edward Wilson-Lee.

A biography of Hernando Columbus, second son of Christopher Columbus, with particular focus on his efforts in the early 16th century to construct a so-called 'universal library' of every book then published in the world, resulting in a private collection of some 15,000 volumes, the largest in existence at the time. Includes eight pages of colour plates, and black and white illustrations throughout.