Sbírka vzduchoplavecké literatury v Knihovně AV ČR

• Authors: Andrea Jelínková

Title variants

EN

The Collection of Literature on Aeronautics in the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASL) manages a significant collection of books on aeronautics. The collection was assembled by the collector Eduard Langer more than a hundred years ago. Its part kept in the ASL consists of 67 printed books in 61 volumes. These are rarely preserved books from the 18th and 19th centuries in Italian, French, English, German and Latin. No other such extensive collection on this topic has been found in domestic libraries, and, although it is only a part of Langer’s original collection, it bears comparison even with collections of world-famous institutions. The text presents this remarkable collection in terms of provenance, authors and genres and is complemented by a list of printed books.

Keywords

EN

Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; aeronautics; historical collections; Eduard Langer (1852–1914); private libraries; balloons

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Journal: Knihy a dějiny (Books and history)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 21
• Pages: 43-75
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Andrea Jelínková

• Knihovna AV ČR, v.v.i., Národní 1009/3, 115 22 Praha 1, Czech Republic