Sentence examples for private book collection from inspiring English sources
Ryback singles out the Munich publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann as possessing "the dubious double claim to being both the single most generous contributor to Hitler's private book collection and the public architect for the Nazi pseudoscience of biological racism".
In Charles Areskine's Library, Karen Baston uses a detailed study of an eighteenth-century Scottish advocate's private book collection to explore key themes in the Scottish Enlightenment including secularisation, modernisation, internationalisation, and the development of legal literature in Scotland.
There it could join 1,200 other surviving volumes from Hitler's private library and not only be readily accessible to scholars and historians but also occupy appropriate shelf space with an equally sinister companion book from Hitler's private book collection, a 1925 German translation of Madison Grant's "The Passing of the Great Race," bearing a personal inscription to Hitler.
Just before he passed away in 2004, Rudy confided that his dying wish was to turn his private book collection into a public library.
During those troubled times there were incidents of aggression even on the personal level on private book collections.
One of Britain's most impressive private book collections has been lost after a shed belonging to the author Francis Wheen went up in "spectacular" flames.
To create their projects, students draw inspiration from public and private book collections in Baltimore, including the university's John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen and George Peabody Library, the Walters Art Museum, and the private artist's book collection of Betty and Edgar Sweren.
In addition to several private book collections, 35,000 texts including a large number of unique works were lost with the University of Copenhagen library, and at the observatory on top of Rundetårn, instruments and records made by Tycho Brahe and Ole Rømer were destroyed.
Soon after, he criticized a plan to house a private gay book collection in a public library because it contained pornography.
Ginnie Cooper, president of the Public Library Association and the library director in Portland, Ore., said the hiring of private contractors dates to the last century, when libraries in the West used private book vendors to provide start-up collections, a practice that continues today.
Library of Congress, Rosenwald Rare Book Collection.
