New information resources of the 19 century

The article is devoted to a fundamentally new for bibliographic science of the 19 century the theme «suicide». The author revealed the first bibliographic publication in a given subject area - list, published in 1857; marked the first known writing about suicide - papyrus dated to 2280-2000 b. c.; this is given the overview of the literature on death - from the egyptian book of the dead and mythological scenes, to fundamental works on the science of suicide, the philosophy of death, ethics and aesthetics of suicide; are described in detail identified the author of thematic bibliographic resources of the 19 century.