THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY/ TREASURES FROM TEN CENTURIES

Near the end of Henry Huntington's life, someone asked him why he had never authorized a biography. He replied, The Library will tel l the story. What began as personal collecting on a modest scale blossomed into serious collecting in the antiquarian market during the first quarter of the twentieth century, and led to the formation of one of the world's major research centers for the study of A nglo-American culture, western Americana, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. Huntington's path from reader to col lector to...[Llegir més]