Robert Curzon, Traveller and Book Collector.

Holland, Meridel.

Book ID: 10348

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8vo. pages 123-157, publisher’s stapled wrappers, reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University, Library of Manchester, Vol. 65, No. 2, 1983.

Synopsis

Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810 – 1873), styled The Honourable Robert Curzon between 1829 and 1870, was an English traveller, diplomat and author, active in the Near East. He was responsible for acquiring several unimportant and late Biblical manuscripts from Eastern Orthodox monasteries.

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