Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/B88ZSo To Have and to Hold By: Philipp Blom Publisher: Abrams Press Print ISBN: 9781585675616, 158567561X eText ISBN: 9781468302189, 1468302183 Format: EPUB Available from $ 14.36 USD SKU 9781468302189 From amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is a captivating tour of collectors and their treasures from medieval times to the present, from a cabinet containing unicorn horns and a Tsar's collection of teeth to the macabre art of embalmer Dr. Frederick Ruysch, the fabled castle of William Randolph Hearst, and the truly preoccupied men who stockpile food wrappers and plastic cups. An engrossing story of the collector as bridegroom, deliriously, obsessively happy, wed to his possessions, till death do us part.
