Anthony Tedeschi

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Museums or Libraries
Occupation Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing, Alexander Turnbull Library
Location Wellington, New Zealand
Introduction Originally from the United States of America, I have worked in special collections and research libraries in Australasia since 2007. My present position is Curator of Rare Books and Fine Printing at the Alexander Turnbull Library/ National Library of New Zealand. This blog is my small contribution to fostering awareness of special collections in Australasia.
Interests Books about books, chess, cooking and cookbooks, British literature and history, history of the English Bible, incunabula, private press books, provenance research, rare books in general, the Southern Gothic
Favorite Music Baroque, Classical, opera, choral, jazz
Favorite Books Taste & Technique in Book Collecting (John Carter), the ghost stories of M. R. James, Samuel Johnson: The Major Works, the works of Flannery O'Connor, the Loeb Classic Library series