Wilberforce Eames letters to Samuel P. Avery, 1899.

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Wilberforce Eames letters to Samuel P. Avery, 1899.

Concerns Gabriel Naudé, first librarian of the Bibliothèque Mazarine.

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Naudé, Gabriel, 1600-1653

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Gabriel Naudé was a French scholar and librarian of the Mazarine Library in Paris. From the description of Papers by and concerning Gabriel Naudé, 1627-1650 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83225098 Gabriel Naudé was a French scholar and librarian of the Mazarin Library in Paris. His correspondents included the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Doni [Janus Nicius Erythraeus], the German mathematician Athanasius Kircher, the French philosopher and sci...

Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904

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American artist, connoisseur, and art dealer, born Mar. 17, 1822 in New York City; died there on Aug. 11, 1904. Avery began his career as an engraver on copper and wood, then established himself as an art dealer in 1865, making annual purchasing trips to Europe each year between 1871 and 1882. He personally knew many American and European artists, whose works he bought, sold and publicized. Avery's connoisseurship was responsible for the formation of numerous private art collections in New York,...

Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937

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Author and librarian at the New York Public Library in New York City. From the description of Letter, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497443 Wilberforce Eames (1855-1937), son of Nelson and Harriet Phoebe (Crane) Eames, was born in Newark, N.J. In 1885, George Henry Moore (1823-1892), superintendent of the Lenox Library in New York City, appointed Eames as his personal assistant. He became a regular member of the library staff in 1888, assistant librarian upon Moore'...