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I collect old books and I am drooling right now. My oldest are only 1860s.
by luxuryballs 3y ago
I collect old books and I am drooling right now. My oldest are only 1860s.
- dhosek 3y agoMy oldest book dates to the 18th century. It’s not my most valuable book (I’m not sure which is, but my guess would be the signed limited edition of Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote would be it). I keep the valuable books on a special shelf so that after I die, my kids will know that those books should probably not be sent to the library book sale.
- phillc73 3y agoAlso love old books. I have a first edition (1791) copy of Introduction to a General Stud Book[1]. That’d be my oldest. Also love old maps. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Stud_Book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Stud_Book
- luxuryballs 3y agothat is so cool!! what a find
- dhosek 3y agoI grew up with a Readers Digest atlas¹ which had reproductions of antique maps on its endpapers. Aside from weird distortions of the shapes of continents, it also had Australia as a peninsula extending from Antarctica. I spent a lot of time studying that old map. ⸻ 1. Speaking of old maps, this atlas had such details as Pakistan and Bangladesh as a single country, Vietnam as two countries, and an extensive section on the then-new concept of plate-tectonics including maps showing prehistoric configurations of the continents.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y agoDo you do anything special to preserve them? Does your local weather cooperate or hinder your collection ?
- luxuryballs 3y agoNope, no different from safely keeping any other books, but I might if I had even older ones depending on their condition.
- WalterBright 3y agoI have a Bible from 1800 or so, and a couple others from 1870 or so. I store them in the comic book archival bags, and keep them in a part of the house that says at a constant temperature.