Antonio Magliabechi

Antonio Magliabechi

male, deceased (1714)
Antonio Magliabechi (or Magliabecchi) was a famous librarian, scholar and bibliophile born at Florence in 1633, the son of a burgher named Marco...
Thomas Grenville

Thomas Grenville

male, deceased (1846)
Thomas Grenville (31 December 1755 - 17 December 1846) was a British politician and bibliophile. Grenville was the son of George Grenville, a...
Richard Copley Christie

Richard Copley Christie

male, deceased (1901)
Richard Copley Christie (July 22, 1830 - January 9, 1901) was an English scholar and bibliophile. He was born at Lenton in Nottinghamshire, the son...

John Ker 3rd Duke of Roxburghe

male, deceased (1804)
John Ker (1740 - 1804), 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, was a Scottish nobleman and bibliophile. Born in Hanover Square, London, on 23rd April 1740, Ker...
Gustav Hasford

Gustav Hasford

male, deceased (1993)
Gustav Hasford (November 28, 1947 - January 29, 1993) in Russellville, Alabama) joined the Marines in 1967, serving as a combat correspondent...
Thomas Crofts

Thomas Crofts

male, deceased (1781)
The Reverend and Learned Thomas Crofts FRS FSA (1722 - 8 November 1781) was a British bibliophile and traveller. Thomas was born in Monmouth, Wales...
Wilfrid Michael Voynich

Wilfrid Michael Voynich

male, deceased (1930)
Wilfrid Michael Voynich, born Michał Habdank-Wojnicz, was a Polish revolutionary, British and American antiquarian and bibliophile, and the eponym o...
Charles William Dyson Perrins

Charles William Dyson Perrins

male, deceased (1958)
Charles William Dyson Perrins was an English businessman, bibliophile and philanthropist. He was born in Claines, near Worcester, the son of James...
Chaim Joseph David Azulai

Chaim Joseph David Azulai

male, deceased (1807)
Rabbi Chaim Joseph David ben Isaac Zerachia Azulai (1724 - 21 March 1807), commonly known as the Chida (by the acronym of his name), was a...
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli

Gian Vincenzo Pinelli

male, deceased (1601)
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535 - 1601) was an Italian humanist from Padua, a savant whose collection of manuscripts, when it was purchased from his...