George Philip Philes
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1828 – 1913
Who was George Philip Philes?
George Philip Philes was a bibliographer. He was educated at Ithaca Academy and the classical institute of August Maasberg, Göttingen, and moved to New York City in 1854, engaged as a bookseller and publisher. Dartmouth College gave him the degree of M.A. in 1858. Mr. Philes was a fine linguist and a high authority on American bibliography. He contributed to literary journals under the pen-name of “Paulus Silentiarius,” edited The Philobiblion, and assisted in preparing the Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima, compiled by Henry Harrisse. He also issued The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon; a reprint in black letter of the Proverbes, or Adagies translated from Erasmus, by Rycharde Tauerner, London, 1550; How to Read a Book in the Best Way; Bibliotheca Curiosa: Catalogue of the Library of Andrew J. Odell,; and Monograph on the 'First English Bible' printed in the United States of America, with facsimiles, of which twenty-five copies were printed for private distribution.
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