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book collecting: Quick Facts

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Three small 18th-century books, including a rectangular finger calendar with a decorative cover showing a seated figure, and two brown leather-bound volumes, one with a slipcase.
View a tutorial on the safe handling of rare books, manuscripts, and prints by the staff of the Folger Shakespeare Library
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J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
American financier
Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician
Rosenbach, A.S.W.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
American book collector
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George Thomason
English bookseller
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Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana
Spanish poet
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James Lenox
American philanthropist and book collector
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Nikolay Petrovich, Count Rumyantsev
Russian statesman
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Apellicon Of Teos
Greek librarian
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Berthold Laufer
American anthropologist
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Henry E. Huntington
American railroad magnate