Word: auctioneer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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According to the wish expressed in a letter to an intimate friend, the University will receive the library of the late Professor Hugo Muensterberg. This announcement came out yesterday in connection with the auction sale of the household furnishings at Professor Muensterberg's home, 7 Ware street, Cambridge. President Lowell was informed of Professor Muensterberg's desire and expressed a great satisfaction and stated officially that the University would be pleased to accept the library...
...copies were struck off of "The Beach of Falesa," and these were used only for purposes of copyright. The book, which is cheaply bound, was recently sold at auction in London for $800. A few years later, however, Stevenson incorporated the story, with "The Bottle Imp" and "The Isle of Voices," into "Island's Nights Entertainments." The edition of ten was the only ever printed of "The Beach of Falesa" as a separate volume. It was published by Cassell and Company of London in 1892, and has many variations from the narrative as it appeared in the later collection. Many...
...Combatant"; R. Herrick, "The World Decision"; L. Johnson, "Poetical Works"; C. E. Lauriate, Jr., "The Lusitania's Last Voyage"; G. E. Lessing, "Saintliche Schriften"; T. R. Lounsbury, "The Life and Times of Tennyson"; J. Macy and J. W. Gannaway, "Co-operative Free Government"; G. G. Montgomery, "Modern Auction"; J. G. Neihardt, "A Bundle of Myrrh"; G. Pollock, "Fifty Years of American Idealism"; Dr. M. G. Overlock, "A Nurse in Every Home"; E. A. Powell, "Fighting in Flanders"; Princess Catherine Radzewell, "Memories of Forty Years"; Kate Ryan, "Old Boston Museum Days"; C. A. Straham, "Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage"; May Sinclair...
...auction sale held in London last week, the Fogg Museum acquired parts of a large altarpiece by Spinello Aretino, the central panel of which is now in the Fogg Museum. This picture was described by Vasari as being painted for the convent of Monte Oliveto, near Siena, in 1385. The great altarpiece has long since been dismembered and scattered. Certain parts are in Siena, some are in Budapest, and the central panel, representing the Madonna and Child and Angels, went first to a collection in Florence, later to London, and has now been in the Fogg Museum for eleven years...
...money value of his collection can only be estimated. Authorities say that it would bring at public auction many hundreds of thousands of dollars. In other ways its value is inestimable. It far surpasses in every way other gifts to the Library since 1638 when John Harvard founded it with the modest bequest of 370 books...