Word: bodmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curmudgeon is the first complete play by Menander discovered by the modem world. Two years ago the only known copy, scrawled on papyrus possibly by a schoolmaster in the 3rd century A.D., turned up mysteriously in the hands of a Greek antique dealer in Cairo. The finder: Martin Bodmer, a millionaire Swiss banker and bibliophile, who whisked it off to his lavish private library in Geneva...
...Miller's paintings of a fur trappers' rendezvous, done with blue-tinted mountains in the romantic manner of Delacroix, are the only surviving pictorial records of the mountain men's great annual blowouts of drinking, fighting, "squaw doin's" and trading. The Swiss painter Charles Bodmer, first artist to travel up the Missouri past the Yellowstone, included in his careful watercolors of the fierce Plains warriors, dramatic sketches of other tribesmen already demoralized and debauched by drink, decaying on the outskirts of the white man's settlements...
...written for Actor David Garrick. He bid it up 10 at a time until he carried it away triumphantly for $3.60, later turned down a $5,000 offer for it. Last March Rosy announced his most famous sale: 73 prized volumes of Shakespeare folios and quartos to Dr. Martin Bodmer, Swiss banker, for something over...
...collectors is Philadelphia's Dr. Abraham S. W. Rosenbach. Last week Rosenbach announced that he had sold his famous collection of Shakespeares-73 prized folios and quartos of plays and sonnets, many of them first editions in excellent condition. The buyer: Europe's outstanding collector, Dr. Martin Bodmer, Swiss banker and vice president of the International Red Cross. The price: something over...