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« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2014, 05:42:45 PM »

Oldest I've ever seen was a Geneva Bible which from the 1500's in a bookstore. I was going to buy it until I realised it cost $15 000 Tongue
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« Reply #26 on: October 16, 2014, 05:44:07 PM »

Some late 20's book about how to be an electrician
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« Reply #27 on: October 16, 2014, 06:20:35 PM »

Personally? I think its (oh dear this is embarrassing) a late 19th century edition of Hegel...
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« Reply #28 on: October 16, 2014, 07:14:43 PM »
« Edited: October 16, 2014, 08:09:30 PM by kcguy »

I had four sets of encyclopedias growing up.  My dad mostly found them at garage sales or in dumpsters, and he paid a grand total of $1 for all four.  The oldest of them had articles on General Eisenhower and Princess Elizabeth.

Looking through my bookshelves, I see a history of England from 1901 and a book on heredity from 1939.

Appropriately for this site, I also own the original 1972 edition of Michael Barone's Almanac of American Politics.
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« Reply #29 on: October 17, 2014, 08:40:11 AM »

I have a gigantic world atlas from 1918. It's very pretty, with huge maps of different places. It also has a guide to post-war border changes.

It's probably pretty valuable, but I have't treated it very well-I use is as a lap desk Sad .
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« Reply #30 on: October 17, 2014, 01:00:46 PM »

It's probably pretty valuable, but I have't treated it very well-I use is as a lap desk Sad .

Which means you've treated it considerably better than many old books over the centuries. Some very valuable volumes have even been used as ash trays...
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« Reply #31 on: October 17, 2014, 02:13:00 PM »
« Edited: October 17, 2014, 04:01:19 PM by stepney »

This thread provoked me to do a bit of a stock check and see how my older, less well-treated and much abused books fell in. Here’s the damage:

McCalmont’s Parliamentary Poll Book (1880)
The Right Hon. the Lord Beaconsfield KG and his Times (5 volumes, 1881)
Life of Disraeli, Vol I (1910)
Life of Disraeli, Vol II (1912)
Philips’ Handy Administrative Atlas of England & Wales (1912)
Life of Disraeli, Vol III (1914)
Life of Disraeli, Vol IV (1916)
Liberal Year Book (1916)
Report of the Boundary Commission (Scotland) (1917)
... (goes on in similar vein from there)

Of course I have various reprints of other books from the same sort of era – Stooks Smith’s Parliaments of England, Times Guides to the House of Commons, Constitutional Year Books, Dod’s Parliamentary Companion, and Sybil und so weiter.

Yep, I think that gives all my interests and life away. :-S
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« Reply #32 on: October 17, 2014, 06:21:25 PM »


I bought the 1967 edition recently; another (more innocent?) world in certain respects.
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« Reply #33 on: October 17, 2014, 09:15:21 PM »


This. Beyond that, a 1959 reprint of The Great Game of Politics originally published in 1923. A brilliant insiders guide to the world of ward politics.

As an original printing, a 1934 book on The Conquest of Mexico. Rather predictable apologism for Cortes (even though the Aztecs sucked in the early 16th Century).
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« Reply #34 on: October 18, 2014, 07:39:53 AM »

People on this thread have some really cool books.

The oldest one I own is 1921 history of philosophy my dad used when he was in seminary for two years as a young man. 

The oldest book I've handled--and not just looked at through thick glass--was an 1801-02 translation of the Upaniṣads into Latin.
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« Reply #35 on: October 18, 2014, 07:46:41 AM »
« Edited: October 18, 2014, 07:48:41 AM by Mechaman »

I got the Histories by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus on my Kindle.  Not sure if that counts, given it's a translation and it's on an e-reader, Tongue
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« Reply #36 on: October 18, 2014, 01:09:49 PM »

Psychology Michael Maher, S.J. [1900]

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« Reply #37 on: October 18, 2014, 02:07:59 PM »

A 1774 copy of the New England Primer.
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