4 Things a Rare Book Dealer DOES NOT KNOW about Rare Books
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Adam Weinberger, a NYC Rare Book Dealer, talks about FOUR things he DOES NOT know about rare books. Watch if you think a Book of Hours should be clickbait for the masses. For Free evaluations or if you are selling rare books or manuscripts visit : RareBookBuyer.com webuyrarebooks@gmail.com
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As always, a very interesting video and articulated so well. Thank you for taking the time to explain so much.
It is more complex than you can imagine, how books were shelved. There was a wide range, of all shelving habits from c16-c19; different owners; different places... There is a woodcut in one of the wunderkammer works, which shows a c17 large library. In that room, all books were shelved leading edge out. You'll see plenty that have MS. markings on the leading edge, just as you see lower and upper. The iron duke of Alba's was arranged leading edge outward, judging from the few copies I have seen (gorgeously lettered and decorated in MS.; I've seen his 1556 De re metallica - plum gorgeous). Book cases have been around at least since the c16, likely much earlier. A case to hold books, is a book case. Plenty of c16 books in contemporary bindings survive that were lettered in MS. or in gilt on their spines, hence many shelved their books spine facing outward. Spine outward has won out over the years, is all.
Thanks you for such an erudite and thoughtful comment. I realize how complex it was an only meant it as some cursory remarks to invite curiosity into such a fun and fascinating topic. Of course, even today (as a frequent visitor of estates and apartments) we see books ‘shelved’ in some most unusual ways.
@@RareBookBuyer Ah, of course mate. I do get carried away... Love the videos...
Interesting and recommendable vid, as always. I would be interested to know more about Sebastian Muensters "Cosmographia", the first Encyclopedia in German language. If available, it would be a pleasure to get some more information about this 16./ 17. century book from you.
I recently sold my only copy in stock so it will have to wait until I have another. It is a great book
Thank you...
just shows - you never stop learning
I feel I can’t remove the tissue guard even when it has foxing because it’s an integral part of the book as published even when it would make sense to get rid of the damn thing.
We need then tissue guards for tissue guards ;)
wood block printing only started in europe in 15th century. i believe the earliest dated european woodcut is of st christopher from 1423. given how new the technology was i can't imagine it was that common... but looking at the heavy woodcut utilization of parisian printed BoHs by folks like pigouchet and vostre, maybe there was a decade or two in there where it was occasionally used.
your copy is a really interesting example of the transitioning technology. to my knowledge, block books only became briefly popular after 1450, with woodcuts primarily just being used for broadsides.
Considering it is dutch, maybe its manuscripts like this that mixed in early printing that gave rise to the rumors of Laurens Coster inventing printing 2 decades before Gutenberg! Have you researched the Calender of Saints in your BoH to try and determine place of origin? The patron saint of Haarlem, home town of Coster, is Saint Bavo. Wouldnt that be exciting if he was listed in your calender. :-P
All excellent points. I have not started work on it to be honest. It will take me as always quite some research. It was a recent acquisition so I just used it for the video as a display of my hopefully temporary ignorance :) and an example of the curious questions one can encounter that make the business so much fun
@@RareBookBuyer well i look forward to a video update after you do your research! :-P
it sounds like a very interesting manuscript!
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I’m knit picking but neither Coster or Gutenberg invented printing. Printing and movable type have been in use in China since 1040 AD and metal cast type made famous by Gutenberg was developed by the Koreans nearly a century before anyone in Europe considered it, and there are records of European travelers having heard of eastern printed books and being inspired, several of these accounts can be found in the British library.
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Hi Adam,
what is your take on the cliche: reg: rare and antique books: if you can smell it, then you cant sell it? thank you
No one wants dust or mold but the Lignin breaks down in old books and smells a bit like Madagascar vanilla - and people sell an awful lot of ice cream.
Adam Weinberger Rare Book Buyer amazing. Thank you love thAt book smell. Makes me so happy. First thing I do once I hold an antique book thank you *ADAM* have a good day
I have some questions about the book market, in general, I can not understand because it makes no sense...can you please shed some light on it?. Please bear with me.
I am not necessarily talking about old rare books from the 16th or 17th c. these may be modern-day paperbacks that could be no more than 20 years old, but they're priced as if they're Guttenberg Bibles. Practically overnight, some books that were easily available have virtually vanished and now have insane stratospheric prices.
i.e. take the Harper Row 1971 version of Andre Collard's English translation of Las Casas' "HIstory of the Indies". which I have in the extremely rare hardcover (it has no DJ and is ex-library, but even that is amazing because of its apparent scarcity)!
Just a few months back, you could buy the paperback of this book for around $30-$50, but now they have disappeared and the few that are listed have these crazy prices no one will ever pay...$900 and up!...for one in "acceptable" condition. It makes little sense for a 1971 paperback that was available just recently. Forget about finding the hardcover.
Here it is. What is the rationale in this craziness?. This is for a fricking paperback
www.amazon.com/History-Indies-European-perspectives-Bartolome%CC%81/dp/0061315400/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1EJPZRA9TH0TV&dchild=1&keywords=history+of+the+indies+bartolome+de+las+casas&qid=1593271887&sprefix=history+of+the+indies%2Caps%2C1017&sr=8-3
Take the hardcover of "A Patriot's History of the United States" by Larry Schweikart. This book only came out in 2004 and the hardcovers were numerous for a few dollars on eBay just last year...NOW...few hardcovers are to be found and when they are, they're $50 and up....why?!!!. Thousands were printed. This is not a rare book!. I bought the hardcover in a Goodwill for $2.
I could go on with many more, but these are but a few examples. Can anyone explain what is going on here?. It's weird.
I would not trust out of print book prices on Amazon always. They are sometimes laughably inflated by computer algorithms and have no relation to actual market prices. There are as well some disreputable sellers that hope to cash in on uninformed buyers. I recommend using ViaLibri.net for pricing out of print book. It is a mega search engine and you can look at copies in price order
@@RareBookBuyer Thanks very much.
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