Bindley formed a very large and valuable collection of rare books, engravings, and medals, which he commenced at a very early age, and to which he devoted all his spare time and money.
Hadrian Beverland], but in whose library were many 'rare books .
Jolley was a wealthy orange-merchant of Farringdon Street, London, and entertained me often with many stories of similar fortunate finds of rare books, which served to whet my appetite only the more.
But somehow he managed to scrape together a curious and interesting collection, so that his name became associated with rare books, as well as with rare Christian virtues.
A part of October was accomplished under the auspices of Maria Theresa, the Empress Queen, but for some reason or other it came within the category of rare books, and was not to be easily obtained until it was lately reprinted.
Mr. Rich was well known in the bibliographical world for his collection of rare books relating to Spain and America, and his Bibliotheca Americana is a work of great labor and research, and of real service to the student of history.
Historical Nuggets Bibliotheca Americana or a Descriptive Account of my Collection of Rare Books relating to America.
Rosenbach, on the second floor of his shop in Philadelphia, has a stock of rare books unequaled by any other dealer in this country.
Other seductive arguments having failed, one sometimes hears a vendor of rare books add, in his most convincing manner, "And you couldn't possibly make a better investment.
It was not his original intention to deal in rare books, but to become a professor of English, a calling for which few have a finer appreciation; but mere scholars abound.
Boulard's treatise on bibliographical method stands on the border of what is admissible and should certainly not be placed with "Des livres rares," a list of catalogues of rare books (p.
Another class of rare books is found in many local histories, both among the county histories of Great Britain, and those of towns and counties in the United States.
It fails to record the names of publishers, except in the case of some early or rare books.
The inconvenience attending the examination of rare books in provincial libraries is very great and serious.
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