A person who buys and sells books, especially someone who collects and sells rare, old, or valuable books.
From Greek biblio- (book) + -pole (seller) + -ist (person who practices). The term became established in English in the 1600s to describe professional book dealers.
Some of history's most important texts survived only because bibliopolists—essentially book hunters and collectors—tracked them down and preserved them before they were lost to time.
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