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Dunedin, New Zealand and New Castle, Delaware: Otago University Press and Oak Knoll Press, 2006. hardcover, dust jacket. Grey, George. 6 x 9.25. hardcover, dust jacket. 352 pages. Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Less well known of Grey is that we he was also an obsessive collector of rare books and artifacts, which he selflessly bequeathed to the people he governed. Through these items, we are given a look into Grey's less -publicized private life. There are actually two "Grey Collections" in the southern hemisphere, each with almost identical statues and similar collections. He assembled an extraordinary collection and then donated the entire assemblage to Cape Town in 1861. He continued to purchase rarities and other manuscripts and donated his second collection from his private library to Auckland. Grey gathered items from classic European book culture, as well as artifacts and…
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Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector Tapa dura - 2006
de Donald Kerr
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- Título Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector
- Autor Donald Kerr
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition; F
- Páginas 351
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Otago University Press, New Castle, DE
- Fecha de publicación December 30, 2006
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9781584561965 / 1584561963
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2007295331
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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