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J.P. Morgan
American financier
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Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician
Rosenbach, A.S.W.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
American book collector
George Thomason
English bookseller
Iñigo López de Mendoza, marquis de Santillana
Spanish poet
Nikolay Petrovich, Count Rumyantsev
Russian statesman
James Lenox
American philanthropist and book collector
Henry E. Huntington
American railroad magnate
Berthold Laufer
American anthropologist
Apellicon Of Teos
Greek librarian