How to Use antiquarian in a Sentence

antiquarian

adjective

• It is owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and sells a mix of old, new and antiquarian books since 1936.
  — Lindsay Silberman, Town & Country, 8 Mar. 2018
• In 1852, Adie’s grave was exhumed at the direction of the antiquarian Joseph Neil Paton.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
• Not all the books are antiquarian, though many were printed before 1850.
  — Betsy Groban, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• Once a week or so, legendary antiquarian and shopkeeper John Rosselli steals away to his home away from home.
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 18 Nov. 2019
• Swan, who opened her roughly 1,000-square foot antiquarian shop nearly four years ago at the rear of a building on Locust Street, doesn’t see Amazon as a threat.
  — Jennifer Modenessi, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2017
• The city will host at least 10, offering hundreds of booths of modern and contemporary art, from blue chip to brand-new, and even a sampling of antiquarian books.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• Big-game hunters can browse the store’s antiquarian titles, and those looking for quantity will be drawn to the eclectic and constantly updated sales rack out front.
  — Michael Hingston, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
• Once again, the show includes Book Alley, a section devoted to antiquarian, art and collectible books.
  — Laura Fenton, ELLE Decor, 18 Jan. 2012
• Big-game hunters can browse the store’s antiquarian titles, while those looking for quantity will be drawn to the eclectic and constantly updated sales rack out front.
  — Michael Hingston, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• The idea is to give researchers better access to the Dutch cartography, Tom Harper, lead curator of antiquarian maps at the library, tells Meier.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• The idea is to give researchers better access to the Dutch cartography, Tom Harper, lead curator of antiquarian maps at the library, tells Meier.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• Barnes & Noble closed its Walnut Creek location last year leaving the city with just one antiquarian collectibles book store.
  — Jennifer Modenessi, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• Bunny remained close to her devoted son Stacy, who for many years owned an antiquarian bookstore in Georgetown and has lived in a separate house on the Upperville farm.
  — Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2014
• Attempts to recreate the building now would amount to a pastiche or replica, not a restoration, and Mackintosh was an innovator, not an antiquarian.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• In addition to Chip and Jo painting the antiquarian island, the couple also finished the Romanesque cabinet by troweling a hard slab of concrete on top.
  — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2017
• Stating this bluntly is not a mere matter of antiquarian interest or settling scores.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
• For McCain’s days right now — and his book — are a plea to Americans to reconsider, and to reclaim, the principles and even the rhetoric that are our ancient heritage and not, to his mind, antiquarian, obsolete banalities.
  — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• Kay and his wife renovated the once-crumbling mansion and, with the help of an antiquarian friend in London, are filling it with period pieces and Nightingale memorabilia.
  — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
• After a lucky meeting with Cameron Treleaven, an antiquarian bookseller from Calgary, he was sent a whole library of explorers’ accounts.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Nearly 60 years later, a wedding album handwritten by his mother, Margarita Pedroso y Arostegui, has turned up for sale in Miami by an antiquarian.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 3 May 2018
• What had been a jewel box of antiquarian surprises — an artful display of old books and lithographs, ship models and toy trains, memorabilia and Americana — was now a way station for cardboard, packing tape and bubble wrap.
  — Thomas Curwen, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• The San Antonio antiquarian bookstore opened in 1967 downtown.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022
• LaKeith Stanfield, playing a single note with building intensity, stars as Apollo, a dealer in antiquarian books.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• And while dramatically increased security at the Vatican may go a long way toward preventing a recurrence here, the case is a window into the shadowy world of antiquarian forgeries.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• The process, known as proroguing, usually passes without much notice, except for the pompous rituals and antiquarian costumes that accompany it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• All are invited to Huntington Hospital’s boutique and consignment shop, the Huntington Collection for a special sale of vintage, rare, collectible and antiquarian books.
  — La Cañada Valley Sun, 24 Sep. 2019
• Seventy-seven-year-old Harvey Jason may be the only antiquarian bookseller to inspire an action figure.
  — Lesley M. M. Blume, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• Presiding over all of this is a coterie of characters plucked haphazardly from other periods in Ivrea’s history, parading around in antiquarian costumes.
  — Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• All that vanished world of culture and experience is reduced to an elegant grid, as simple as an antiquarian’s catalog, a thought picture that demands calm engagement and imaginative intervention on the viewer’s part.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• The fair brings together international exhibitors, including galleries, cultural institutions and antiquarian booksellers to share a wide range of art books.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024