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Phillipps recorded in an early catalogue that his collection was instigated by reading various accounts of the destruction of valuable manuscripts. [3] Such was his devotion that he acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts, arguably the largest collection a single individual has created, and coined the term "vello-maniac" [ 4 ...
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This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have been sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century St Cuthbert Gospel , to a 21st-century autograph manuscript of J. K. Rowling ...
Harrison David Horblit (1 May 1912, in Boston – 8 March 1988, in Danbury) was a philanthropist and collector of books, manuscripts, and photographs.He is famous for the Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photographs.
One of Evans's finest works in architectural photography. [s 1] First Flight: 17 December 1903 John T. Daniels: Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, United States Glass plate Captured flight of the first airplane, the Wright Flyer, flown by inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright. [s 2] [s 4] The Vanishing Race–Navaho: 1904 Edward S. Curtis
This is a list of famous manuscripts. Historical. Carte Manuscripts; Codex Nuttall 16th century, Mixtec; Red Book of Hergest 14th about century, Welsh;
Bruce Chatwin* — Photographs and Notebooks, Anatomy of Restlessness (a collection of essays and articles, as well as short stories and travel tales), Winding Paths; Roald Dahl — Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety; David James Davies — Towards Welsh Freedom; Gustave Flaubert* — Dictionary of Received Ideas
The first few recipes in the Phillipps-Corning manuscript [2] of the Mappae clavicula were long considered integral, but they form a distinct separate entity, the De coloribus et mixtionibus, which survives (in whole or in part) in at least 62 manuscripts. [3]