A Treasure Hunter

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12211, 8 August 1925, Page 12

A Treasure Hunter

After having spent'£4oo,ooo in England in the purchase of: rare books for American puHionaiite, Dr. A/ S. W. fosenbach has retuftifed to the United tates.' During ’+fib past seven years he has‘Spent £2,000,000 in' Europe on * V . In hje lrftest search for literary, treasures he found and secured a series of letters; written by George Washington

in which he dealt with American agriculture and climate, v His most expensive purchase was a copy’ of “Baxter’s Call to the Converted,” printed in 1664 at Cambridge, Massachusetts', in the Amerioan Indian language, for which he .paid £6BOO. This price is the fourth highest'figure ever paid, for a book. “In spite of all our-captures,? Dr. Kosenbach remarked, 'there should remain in England many wonderfully fine private libraries such as America would desire to acquire. 1. do, not think many of them will come into the market. ' They are held as family posses sions.” , ... Besides being a collector of rare hooks for rich: clients, he is a writer of bpokisk tales: The latbesff re The Unpublishable Memoirs.”