"While the act of reading is meant to figuratively transport the reader to another place, the act of book collecting has literally sent Washke to the farthest corners of the globe."

"The 43-year-old specializes in travel and exploration books, an area of expertise that has taken him from Tanzania to Peru and everywhere in between."

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"Dubbed 'The Islamic Heritage Protection Workshop,' and sponsored by the Stanford University in the United States, the programme was dedicated to the care and handling of Arabic manuscripts, prints, maps, and rare books."

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"The target clientele for their bookstore includes many different ages but they all have one thing in common: they are either educated people or people who want to become more educated than they already are. Online anyone can find out about them and come check out their store."

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"There were about 40,000 volumes in the Rare Books and Special Collections division of the University of Toronto Libraries when Landon arrived as a shaggy-haired, bespectacled and skinny cataloguer in 1967."

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"The head of state reminded the audience of the history of Ancient Merv, famous for its world's largest libraries that were once centers of genuine science, education and culture."

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"A literarian from Liverpool who had travelled down that morning, grumbled about the slowness of the bidding, though he admitted that it was swifter than at a Manchester auction house. Another gentleman whose speciality was medieval manuscripts showed me how to inspect leather bindings from photographs and the importance of undamaged seals on documents."

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"Spanning more than 2,000 years of scientific discovery and including books that date from the late 15th century (when Gutenberg’s movable type was a brand-new technology) to the mid-20th century, Eureka! contains highlights from the larger Hinkes collection and provides a kind of roadmap of seminal moments in the history of science."

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"The office was lined with rare books and manuscripts -- first editions of Voltaire and Hugo, a nine-volume biography of Napoleon and original letters from Shelley."

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"Why would a Bible that commands adultery, a copy of the Good Book that belonged to the most exalted pop singer in history, and Shakespeare’s creative genius be together at DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library?"

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"PLEASANT PRAIRIE — The interest in rare books and hard-to-find figures at Sunday’s comic book show showed that there is a serious side to this field of collecting."

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"Maryemma Graham, an English professor at Kansas University, has been working for 30 years to track down novels written by black writers. In fact, she’d like to get all of them."

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"College principal Dr.Daljit Singh said today that the museum, which was established in 1930, houses over 6,274 books which include rare books in English and Punjabi dating back to 16th and 17th century."

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"Tuesday, Kennesaw State University celebrated the opening of the new exhibit 'How God Became English' with a trio of lectures and a brief panel discussion about the display."

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"The book was discovered in the library's general collection where it had been available for public borrowing. It doesn't have a presentation or donor plate to give a clue to its origin but it was part of a larger collection of books donated to the library."

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"Few accounts of antiquarian book selling and collecting are as absorbing as Joel Silver's Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly. Fewer are even as finely focused, narrating a story of the book transactions between one impassioned collector and one renowned antiquarian dealer set against the backdrop of modern book collecting in its golden age."

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