Books that changed History

Books that changed history

A 2017 publication which will attract the attention of bibliophiles, art historians, literary scholars and many others, Books that changed history published by Dorling Kindersley features essays on 72 works, ranging from Ancient Egyptian books of the dead to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
See a review of this title at Reviews & discussion of "Books that changed history"
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2017/0928/908292-books-that-changed-history/ or hear the editor describe its contents to the RTE presenter Seán O'Rourke at https://player.fm/series/rt-today-with-sean-orourke/books-that-changed-history
Some original and some facsimile editions of many of these works feature in the James Hardiman Library's Special Collections. Over the next months we will put our copies of some of these titles on display in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room for you to enjoy, together with the relevant commentary contained in Books that changed History. The initial display features the first volume of Carl Linneus' System Naturae, published in France in 1789. This copy is from the University's Old Library collection, features in the early library printed catalogues and bears the stamp of Queen's College, Galway.

The second chosen title in this display is a modern complete and annotated edition of the Chronicle of the world 1793, commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle. This fine edition was published by Taschen in 2001. It is stored in our Special Collections and can be read on request in the Archives & Special Collections Reading Room on the ground floor of the Hardiman Research Building (Room HRB005).