The Virgin of the Sun Paperback / softback
by Sir H Rider Haggard
Paperback / softback
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There are some who find great interest, and even consolation, amid the worries and anxieties of life in the collection of relics of the past, drift or long-sunk treasures that the sea of time has washed up upon our modern shore. The great collectors are not of this class. Having large sums at their disposal, these acquire any rarity that comes upon the market and add it to their store which in due course, perhaps immediately upon their deaths, also will be put upon the market and pass to the possession of other connoisseurs.
Nor are the dealers who buy to sell again and thus grow wealthy.
Nor are the agents of museums in many lands, who purchase for the national benefit things that are gathered together in certain great public buildings which perhaps, some day, though the thought makes one shiver, will be looted or given to the flames by enemies or by furious, thieving mobs.
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- Publication Date:09/01/2019
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- ISBN:9781364044305
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:324 pages, Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Blurb
- Publication Date:09/01/2019
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- ISBN:9781364044305