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Just ask this guy who bought the map for $50 at an estate sale in North Carolina, only to discover on Antiques Roadshow that it was appraised for a staggering $35,000 to $45,000. 6. Vintage World Maps
Richardson was known for his biographies of Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James. [1] Emerson: The Mind on Fire won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1996, and William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism won the Bancroft Prize in 2007. [1] In the first half of his career, he published as Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
"This chart shows US 10-year Treasury yields are creeping towards 5%. Markets are spooked by the 5% level on 10-years because it is the outer limit of an entire generation’s (20 years ...
Flowing Rivers is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Andy Gibb, released on September 1977, by RSO Records.It was produced by Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson, with Barry Gibb as executive producer.
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
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A native of Athens in east Texas, Richardson attended Baylor University and Simmons College from 1910 to 1912. [2] With borrowed money, he and a business partner, Clint Murchison Sr., amassed $1 million in the oil business in 1919–1920, but then watched their fortunes wane with the oil market, until business again boomed in 1933.
Hans Peter Kraus (October 12, 1907 – November 1, 1988), also known as H. P. Kraus or HPK, was an Austrian-born American book dealer described as "without doubt the most successful and dominant rare book dealer in the world in the second half of the 20th century" [1] and in a league with other rare book dealers such as Bernard Quaritch, Guillaume de Bure and A.S.W. Rosenbach.