Gift Books & Keepsake Editions
Remarkable Books
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$30
Gift Books & Keepsake Editions
Remarkable Books
New
$30
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Published by Penguin Random House, the largest trade book publisher in the world and the house behind a great many of the books families read until they fall apart.
We buy these in small quantities for the shop, so the titles on the shelf rotate.
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Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, the Rights of Man, Shakespeare or the Mahabharata. This large format hardcover gathers 75 of the most consequential books ever made and shows what each one changed.
The photography gets close enough to matter: Vesalius's anatomical plates, Leonardo da Vinci's annotated notebooks, the hand decorated pages of the Gutenberg Bible, the Aubin Codex on the Aztecs and the early Spanish colonial period in Mexico. Religious and political cornerstones sit beside On the Origin of Species and the I Ching, all ordered chronologically so you watch human knowledge and the craft of bookmaking grow together.
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