Rare books

First editions of well-loved books can become the most prized in literature. If you have one of these rare books sitting on a shelf somewhere, get ready to cash in!

Comprehensive advice on how to begin collecting rare books, especially rare science books.

Anyone who has been to an estate sale, garage sale or thrift store has seen the pile of old, tattered books tucked away in a corner, mostly ignored. Books are one of those items that tend to accumulate in our lives because it feels like sacrilege to throw one away. This is great news for…Read More

When it comes to budget, work out what you can afford as a rare book collector. Then add the "BUT IT'S SO PRETTY I HAVE TO HAVE IT" margin.

In the following studies I have taken all symbolism to be my province, but the subjects illustrated are ... hitherto-uninterpreted printers' marks and...

The Victorian fascination with natural history combined with affordable book publishing led to some comely titles in elegant binding.

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This book very rare, which have for several centuries attracted the popular faith, is reality in accordance with an old manuscript (the most legible among many), and given word for word, divested only of orthographical errors which the best interest of literature demand—with unerring fidelity. The wonderful magical and spirit arts of Moses and Aaron, and the Old Wise Hebrews, taken from the Mosaic Books of the Cabala and the Talmud, for the Good of Mankind.

Can you tell if a book is a first edition? These are some identifying factors that can help beginners on their search.

FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, IN A MAGNIFICENT, ELABORATELY DECORATED, SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE PERIOD BINDING. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its hardly less famous sequel Through the Looking Glass 1872 , although ostensibly written for children... are unique among 'juveniles' in appealing equally if not more strongly to adults. Written by an Oxford don, a clergyman, and a professional mathematician, they abound in characters--the White