PEOPLE KNOWN FOR: book collecting
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J.P. Morgan, American financier and industrial organizer, one of the world’s foremost financial figures during the two pre-World War I decades. He reorganized several major railroads and consolidated the…...
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet, British physician and naturalist whose collection of books, manuscripts, and curiosities formed the basis for the British Museum in London. As a child Sloane possessed a strong…...
A. S. W. Rosenbach
American book collector
A. S. W. Rosenbach, U.S. book and manuscript collector and dealer who combined solid scholarship and exceptional business acumen. Rosenbach attended the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1898; Ph.D. 1901),…...
George Thomason, English bookseller whose collection of printed books, handbills, pamphlets, ballads, newspapers, and other writings (cataloged and bound from 1640 to 1661) constitute one of the most important…...
Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana
Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana, (marquess of) Spanish poet and Humanist who was one of the great literary and political figures of his time. As lord of the vast Mendoza estates, he led the…...
Nikolay Petrovich, Count Rumyantsev
Nikolay Petrovich, Count Rumyantsev, Russian statesman and diplomat who was also a bibliophile and a patron of historiography and voyages of exploration. The Rumyantsev Museum in St. Petersburg, founded…...
American philanthropist and book collector
James Lenox, American philanthropist and pioneer book collector. Lenox’s father was a wealthy Scottish merchant from whom Lenox inherited several million dollars as well as valuable properties in New York…...
Henry E. Huntington
American railroad magnate
Henry E. Huntington, American railroad magnate and collector of rare books. Henry was the nephew of the railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington. He ultimately held important executive positions with several…...
Berthold Laufer, U.S. scholar who, for 35 years, was virtually the only sinologist working in the United States. Laufer took his doctorate at the University of Leipzig under men in the forefront of Far…...