0 connected with the trade, collection, or study of old and valuable or rare objects: --
an antiquarian bookshop/bookseller
1 a person who studies or collects old and valuable or rare objects --
The ruinous setting suggests the pleasures of tasteful disintegration and ornamental decay, the conventional objects of the eighteenth-century antiquarian imagination.
As such, they are avidly sought by both antiquarians and museums.
Antiquarians studied history with particular attention to ancient artefacts and manuscripts, as well as historical sites.
Shringaverpur, another ancient site discovered relatively recently, has become a major attraction for tourists and antiquarians alike.
Until the nineteenth century, antiquarians did not have substantial knowledge of prehistory, and their only reference points were provided by classical literature.
In him antiquarians have lost a fund of general and useful knowledge, and the poor a warm and benevolent friend.
Antiquarians digging here in the 19th century found a burial cist in the centre, although there are no records of any other remains.
Antiquarians and historians have been interested in the ditch since the 19th century, but much of its course has been built over.
