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Giving back is the impetus for a lot of these older hobbyists. David Rumsey, 59, spent two decades collecting antiquarian maps. In 1996, having amassed a remarkable 150,000 maps, Rumsey realized he wanted to leave some sort of legacy. He decided to put the collection on the Internet, and so far has scanned and cataloged 9,000 maps at www.davidrumsey.com one of the largest such online collections in the world...
...opened Antiquarian Books in Arlington instead, which has since moved to Downtown Boston...
...Ontogeny and Phylogeny is about the organism, and The Structure of Evolutionary Theory is about theory. I should write one on patterns in the history of life.” Gould also hopes to tackle the construction of his own profession, having built up an impressive antiquarian book collection on the early history of paleontology, which he calls “a sixteenth- to eighteenth-century phenomenon...
...Keaveny works to organize his shelves, John E. Link stops by briefly from his own antiquarian and out-of-print bookstore, Karakoram Books, located just one floor upstairs...
Although it is not the most lucrative field, Link says, it’s a rewarding choice of career. He has been in the antiquarian book business for four years and bought the store last July...