Sentences with phrase «many rare books»
Authorities tracked down the seller, a university student in Bologna, who had in turn purchased the rare book from one of Turin's major book dealers.
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Here's how the estimated average cost of a year broke down for men, according to a copy of the 1950 - 1951 Business School bulletin of information, shared by Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library:
Princeton University received nearly $ 300 million worth of rare books and manuscripts, marking the largest donation in the school's history.
It all started when he pulled a random, rare book from his shelf — a book written by a 19th - century horticulturist whose work had fallen into obscurity.
Searching For and Finding Value» 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of Research, Guru Focus Topic: «What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies» 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA] Topic: «Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500 by 6.8 % Annually For 25 Years» 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA.]
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 E Green Street, Pasadena, CA. 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Optional Tour depart from The Pasadena Center (15 minutes after annual meeting ends) and return to Ayres Hotel LAX.
In this place I could read and still think that I was part of what held up a wall against any philistinism that would attempt to violate the quiet grandeur of what the history of Galveston in its archives and rare books contained.
It is the rare book that sells more than 10,000 copies.
The affidavit says the bookstore owner also reached out to people who buy and sell rare books to alert them that the book had been stolen.
This was one of those rare books that is both carefully and passionately written.
The rarest of rare books, a one - of - a-kind family Bible, has surfaced in Salt Lake City.
The exhibit is described as «a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to see a rare selection of original manuscripts, letters, fragments, rare books, archival materials and even a recipe for coconut cake belonging to Emily Dickinson.»
It's a rare book that I find myself turning to again and again, and this is one of them.
-- Tess Masters, author of The Blender Girl «It's a rare book that delivers inspiration through its every page, yet each one of Sarah's recipes sings with flavor and originality.
A recent gift of the private printing of the Lena Richard Cook Book expands the growing rare book collection.
More than 200 years ago an unknown artist tramped the American wilderness painting birds, animals, fish, shrubs, flowers, and creating one of the rarest of rare books.
LAKE FOREST ACADEMY»S ANTIQUES SHOW: Top domestic and international dealers will exhibit museum - quality furniture and decorative arts from the 17th - 19th Centuries, including English and American furniture, Impressionist paintings, rare books, Chinese porcelain, jewelry, rugs, prints, maps and decorative accessories; 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. June 4 - 6; $ 10, includes admission to all three show days; Lake Forest Academy, 1500 W. Kennedy Rd., Lake Forest.
Thursday, local booksellers Betsy Burton of The King's English, Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Catherine Weller of Weller Book Works are stacking our studio with books they say should be on your holiday gift list.
Documents related to the appointment process are among 56 boxes of papers recently sent by Paterson, the state's 55th governor, to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University.
Over 200 guests are expected to attend and will help to raise funds for children's programs in all 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries and the Library's Rare Books and Special Collections.
They sponsor the 4th Tuesday speaker series, many of our special children's programs, quarterly donated book sales, an annual rare book sale and ongoing Book Nook, Book Cart and online book sales (www.ebay.com/usr/oplibrary). Guidelines for book sale donations may be found here:
A Senior Partner in the Buffalo law firm of Kavinoky Cook LLP; Mr. Wisbaum is a Trustee of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System, Vice Chairman of the Library Foundation and Commissioner of Rare Books for Erie County.
The Library Foundation of Buffalo & Erie County and its independent Board of Trustees manages the Library's endowment funds under the auspices of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and supports special projects within the Library's Strategic Plan with a particular focus on Rare Books & Special Collections.
Building Buffalo presents books from the Grosvenor Rare Book Collection of the Buffalo & Erie County Library that were generously given or carefully purchased to help Buffalo grow into a great metropolitan center.
Papers prior to 1842 are in original bound volumes and must be seen by appointment in the Rare Book Room.
Rare or unique local history or genealogy materials may be added to the Rare Book Room collection.
is that rare book that will have you laughing as you learn just how a mass extinction might unfold.
October 19: A 1515 woodcut of a rhino and Robert Hooke's 1667 illustration of a flea star in «Natural Histories,» an exhibit of images from rare books in New York's American Museum of Natural History Library.
It was Christmas break and I couldn't go home, so I spent my time at the library reading all the journals and looking at rare books.
«In a sense, this forgotten fish has been hiding in plain sight in this old monograph but that monograph is so rare that it now resides only in rare book collections of a few large museums,» Stewart said.
It is now in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York.
The 3,700 - year - old Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York.
We're sitting here in the rare book room at the Botanical Garden and it's really great to be in this room.
«It's even harder to sample a rare book than human fossils or teeth,» Collins says.
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The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s, but a new study claims it is both genuine and likely the most ancient of all surviving manuscripts from ancient America.
Mary holds a master's degree in archival management from Columbia University and has extensive experience working with historic documents, architectural records, photographs, and rare books.
They buy & sell used & rare books, first editions & reprints, fiction & non-fiction books.
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Located in the Herefordshire hills, Aardvark Books is set in a 19th century barn and offers a large selection of new and rare books (50,000 titles and counting!)
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Spencer is given a tour of his school's incredibly valuable rare book collection and describes it all to Warren.
Korean director Park Chan - wook («Oldboy,» «Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance») sets up a three - part caper: A fake count and rare book forger (Ha Jung - woo) plants illiterate orphan and petty thief Sookee (Kim Tae - ri) in the employ of heiress Lady Hideko (Kim Min - hee).
Oh, she also begins to fall in love (somewhat) with him (of course, only AFTER he saves her from vicious wolves and gives her a library featuring thousands of rare books).
Exploring the archive in unusual ways and making connections across categories of knowledge and fields of meaning, Gatten's movies construct new compositions and generate unexpected conclusions from 19th - century scientific treatises, «out - dated» 20th - century instructional texts, and rare books from 18th - century personal libraries.
Evan Peters leads an amateur heist of a rare books library in the brand - new trailer for his upcoming film American Animals!