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Lost treasures: $30,000 book features rare 18th-century goldfish art

Histoire Naturelle Des Dorades De La Chine (1780) contains forty-eight stunning engravings of goldfish. This was the first monograph on goldfish ever published in Europe. These images were created by ...
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Don’t let this treasure become a “Lost Symbol”

You may have heard or noticed that Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Lost Symbol, features Horatio Greenough’s statue of George Washington (pp.87-88), which is a ...