bibliophile
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On May 25, 1926, the New York Public Library announced that it had acquired the celebrated Afro-Latino bibliophile Arturo Schomburg’s collection of more than 4,000 books, manuscripts and other artifacts.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024
He was a Christian Zionist and bibliophile, who by all accounts knew the land of Israel better than many of the Jews who lived there.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023
Corcoran was a bibliophile who didn’t horde books but who delighted in knowing what she could about those within her sphere of Modern art interests and making them available to others.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2022
As something of a bibliophile, I found cutting pictures out of books appalling, but newspaper work hardens even the most sensitive soul.
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022
Some of these were valuable, and were old enough to arouse the covetous interest of the bibliophile.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis
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