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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 Tsars 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. Bloms gripping narration and bizarre cast of eccentrics, visionaries, and fanatics provide a fascinating glimpse into how a pastime becomes an all consuming passion and an engrossing story of the collector as bridegroom, deliriously, obsessively happy, wed to his possessions, till death do us part.

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First published in paperback in the United States in 2004 by The Overlook - photo 1

First published in paperback in the United States in 2004 by

The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc.

141 Wooster Street

New York, NY 10012

www.overlookpress.com

[for individual orders, bulk and special sales, contact ]

Copyright 2002 Philipp Blom

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast.

ISBN 978-1-46830-218-9

For Veronica

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Jan van der Heyden, Still Life with Rarities, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Szpmvszti Muzeum, Budapest
The Dragon of Bologna preserved by Aldrovandi in 1572, engraving, from Ulisse Aldrovandi, Serpentum et draconum historiae; reproduced by kind permission of New York Academy of Medicine
The Musaeum Ferrante Imperato, engraving, from Ferrante Imperanto, Dell historia naturale; reproduced by kind permission of the Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Vittore Carpaccio, The Vision of St Augustine, tempera on canvas, detail, Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice
Jan Breughel the Elder, Still Life with Blue Jug, oil on canvas, detail; reproduced by kind permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
J. G. Haintz, Collectors Cabinet, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum
L. Vincent, Wondertooneel der Nature, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum
Hans Leinberger, Death Figurine; reproduced by kind permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Philipp Hainhofer, Kunstschrank of Gustavus Adolphus; reproduced by kind permission of the Museum of the University of Uppsala
Museum of Francesco Calceolari, engraving, from Calceolari, Francesco, Musaeum Calceolarium, Verona, 1622; reproduced by kind permission of the Bibliothque Nationale de France
Clement Kicklinger, ostrich goblet; reproduced by kind permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Choppenes, for Laydes from Malta John Tradescants Catalogue entry, 1656; reproduced by kind permission of the Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Jan van Neck, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Frederik Ruysch, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum
Bartholomeus Dolendo, Dissection in the Leiden Theatrum Anatomicum, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Wellcome Institute, London
The Leiden Theatrum Anatomicum with Anatomical Figures, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
Two putti vivisecting a dog, engraving, from William Cowper, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, Oxford, 1698; reproduced by kind permission of the Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
Siegfried Albinus, corch by Rhinoceros, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Wellcome Institute, London
Anatomical tableau by Frederik Ruysch, engraving, from Frederik Ruysch, Observationum anatomico-chirurgicarum centuria, Amsterdam, 1691; reproduced by kind permission of the New York Academy of Medicine
Peter the Great in wax, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, photo: Gitta Hammarberg; reproduced by kind permission of Gitta Hammarberg
Teeth pulled by Peter, Kunstkamera, St Petersburg, photo: Rosamond Wolff Purcell; reproduced by kind permission of Rosamond Wolff Purcell
The ghost of a butterfly a survivor from Hans Sloanes Collection, Natural History Museum, London, photo: Philipp Blom
Andromeda, plant and legend, drawing by Linnaeus, the Linnaean Society, London; reproduced by kind permission of the Linnaean Society, London
Charles Willson Peale, The Exhumation of the Mastodon, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Maryland Historical Society Museum, Baltimore
Charles Willson Peale, Rachel Weeping, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in His Museum, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Skulls and plaster casts in the Gall Collection, Baden, Austria, photo: Philipp Blom
Angelo Solimans head, plaster cast, Gall Collection, Baden, Austria, photo: Philipp Blom
Angelo Soliman, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the sterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
Plan of the Narrenturm in Vienna, engraving; reproduced by kind permission of the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna
Maria-Theresia Platz and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Authors Collection
Benjamin Zix, Vivant-Denon in the Louvre, pencil on paper, Muse du Louvre, Paris; reproduced by kind permission of the Runion des Muses Nationaux, photo: RMN Jean Schormans
Pierpont Morgans nose, photo: Edward Streichen
Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (attributed), Napoleon on His Deathbed, oil on canvas, Chteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Prau; reproduced by kind permission of Runion des Muses Nationaux, photo: RMN M. Bellot
Reliquary of St Louis, from Michel Flibien, Histoire de labbaye royale de Saint-Denys-en-France, plate V; reproduced by kind permission of Muse du Louvre, Paris
Head of St John, Amiens Cathedral; reproduced by kind permission of Conservation des Antiquits et Objets dart de la Somme
Reliquary of St Ursula, St Ursula, Cologne; reproduced by kind permission of Rheinischer Verein fr Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz
Vincenzo Bellinis apotheosis, photo: Donatella Polizzi Piazza; reproduced by kind permission of Museo Civico Belliniano, Catania
Vincienzo Bellinis corpse after its disinterment, photo: Donatella Polizzi Piazza; reproduced by kind permission of Museo Civico Belliniano, Catania
Peter Paul Rubens, Medusa, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Three flying ducks, James Lowe Collection; reproduced by kind permission of Flying Duck Enterprises
Pastoral idyll, nineteenth-century postcard, Authors Collection
Milk bottle tops, Oliver Ogden Collection; reproduced by kind permission of Oliver Ogden, Silver Spring, USA
Fludd, Utrisque Cosmi, frontispiece, Merton College Library, Oxford; reproduced by kind permission of the Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
Thomas Brownes skull, photo: James Eason; reproduced by kind permission of James Eason
Albrecht Drer, The Book Fool, woodcut; reproduced by kind permission of the sterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
Honor Daumier, The Connoisseur, oil on canvas; reproduced by kind permission of the Art Institute of Chicago
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