antiquarian
Example Sentences
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"He was looking for picturesque subjects which were very popular with an antiquarian market at the time," she said.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026
The Civil Guard police force has also released an antiquarian suspected of having received the items, the court added.
From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025
“On the Calculation of Volume,” Danish author Solvej Balle’s seven-volume opus, follows an antiquarian bookseller who gets stuck reliving the same mid-November day over and over again.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
Ken Sanders is something of a folk hero in the antiquarian world: a notorious book-thief hunter, founding member of Earth First!
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
Their host, an antiquarian architect, had never truckled under to modern civilization and kept his house free of gas and electricity.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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