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The ornithological specimens Ashton sent to Anna provided a valuable source of information to Thomas Pen- nant when he was writing his Arctic Zoology (1784-85), as he acknowledged in the preface to that work: To the rich museum of American Birds, preserved by Mrs.Anna Blackburn, of Orford,...
Collectors of stamps from the British West Indies will find plenty to choose from in our 5th December auction. The auction includes a valuable collection broken into smaller country collections or items and with a total estimate of around £30,000. Some choice items from the auction are shown...
That would make it the most valuable human artefact (by weight) ever sold, says the auction house. Why have prices for very rare stamps risen so high? The broad reason is that number of extremely wealthy people in the world has soared in recent years. The Hurun Global Rich List, ...
German rocketry program was at least 20 years ahead of any other such program in the developed world.As part of Project Paperclip, the United States government brought both the captured V-2s and over 100 German rocketry experts (headed by Wernher von Braun) to America, where they began what...
their production, the books are nonetheless significant documents of the history of New France. They are a valuable—albeit one-sided and heavily edited—source of information about the Indigenous peoples of the area known as New France and their early interactions with the European settler ...
German text on verso. A fine, dark impression of this primitive representation of the world in outline, including a landmass bearing a striking resemblance to the western coast of Australia, in roughly the correct position, though labelled India Meridionalis. Shirley 143. $2000-3000 164 COOK, ...
Obviously, valuable books may in fact, be old, but age is not the first consideration. There is NO shortage of books from the late 1800s, that have virtually no value, except to the rapacious owner of your local pulp mill. Keep in mind, authors that were popular 100 years ago, for ...