Kallimachos: The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography.
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, [1991]. Hardcover. Translation by Hans H. Wellisch. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. ix, 282pp. Near fine/near fine. Blank Rowfant Library “Gift of” bookplate on front pastedown. Item #51151
ISBN: 029913170X
Tight, attractive 1st English-language edition of this volume in the "Wisconsin Studies in Classics" series, originally published in German in 1977. "Rudolf Blum suggests," notes the front jacket flap, "that Kallimachos of Kyrene was the second director of the Alexandrian library, an innovative literary historian, and the inventor of two essential scholarly tools: the library catalog and the biobibliographical reference work." The 3rd century BCE ancient Greek poet and scholar is better known as a pioneering librarian.
Price: $55.00