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Bernard Shapero

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Shapero Rare Books owned about 6,000 books, ranging in price from £50 to over £200,000, and £6,000 on average. The business was sold by Shapero to Philip Blackwell, a director of the family business
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Shapero lives in Hampstead, London, in a house which is half Victorian and half an "ultra-modern" extension, with his wife Emma Lewis, and their three children.
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Bernard John Shapero was born in August 1963, and started dealing in books in the late 1970s, while still a pupil at
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for £1.46 million, the highest price ever paid for an atlas, although this record was surpassed by the
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called him "London's most successful rare-book dealer and arguably the top dealer in the world today".
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in Oxfordshire, when local residents formed a human chain to remove items from the library.
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the following year. In April 2004, the atlas had been saved from a fire at
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Index

Highgate School
antiquarian rare books
Shapero Rare Books
Slate
Highgate School

Doria Atlas
Cosmographia
Wardington Manor
Blackwell Publishing


"The modern Hampstead pad of rare-book seller Bernard Shapero"
the original


"Book Hunting in Britain"
"Bernard John SHAPERO – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)"
"Mr. Bernard Shapero"
the original
"News – Highgate School"
"Atlas favoured by Columbus goes on sale for £1 million"
"Rare atlases snatched from fire"
"Antiquarian Bookseller Completes Successful Stock Market IPO « May - 2014 « Rare Book Hub - Rare Books, Book Auctions, Antiquarian Book Collecting"
"Sheila Markham Rare Books"
the original
Categories
Living people
1963 births
People from Hampstead

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