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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
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I am new to this group. I was wondering where on net I could at least roughly determine the fair value of a book that has been kept in my family for many years. The book is "War of the Jews", written in ghotic German, German translation from the year 1552 of the important work of Josephius Flavius ("De bello Judaico" in 7 parts). We know that the book is rather valuable not only because of almost 500 years since it was written but also mainly because of its illustrations contained in it. Is there on net a search engine where the value could be roughly determined ? Or a place on net where to contact with dealers to value it ? Or a place on net worth recommending where prosp. buyers and sellers can meet ? Thanks for any info Regards Tom |
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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sear...s=30&y=19&x=63
"Tom" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I am new to this group. I was wondering where on net I could at least roughly determine the fair value of a book that has been kept in my family for many years. The book is "War of the Jews", written in ghotic German, German translation from the year 1552 of the important work of Josephius Flavius ("De bello Judaico" in 7 parts). We know that the book is rather valuable not only because of almost 500 years since it was written but also mainly because of its illustrations contained in it. Is there on net a search engine where the value could be roughly determined ? Or a place on net where to contact with dealers to value it ? Or a place on net worth recommending where prosp. buyers and sellers can meet ? Thanks for any info Regards Tom |
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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
"Tom" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I am new to this group. I was wondering where on net I could at least roughly determine the fair value of a book that has been kept in my family for many years. The book is "War of the Jews", written in ghotic German, German translation from the year 1552 of the important work of Josephius Flavius ("De bello Judaico" in 7 parts). We know that the book is rather valuable not only because of almost 500 years since it was written but also mainly because of its illustrations contained in it. Is there on net a search engine where the value could be roughly determined ? Or a place on net where to contact with dealers to value it ? Or a place on net worth recommending where prosp. buyers and sellers can meet ? Thanks for any info Regards Tom You say "500 years since it was written" but the most importance would be "500 years since it was published". Are you saying that you have a 1552 edition, or a reprint? What you really need to determine is the publication info which is listed on the first one or two pages of the book. It will tell you who printed your book, when, where, if it's a reprint of an earlier edition, etc, etc. http://addall.com/used/ searches several booksellers' databases. I found two copies of your title: http://snipr.com/1nwwy -- does either resemble what you have? Kris |
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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
I am new to this group. I was wondering where on net I could at
least roughly determine the fair value of a book that has been kept in my family for many years. The book is "War of the Jews", written in ghotic German, German translation from the year 1552 of the important work of Josephius Flavius ("De bello Judaico" in 7 parts). We know that the book is rather valuable not only because of almost 500 years since it was written but also mainly because of its illustrations contained in it. When was it actually *printed*? When it was written is irrelevant. (There is no such thing as "ghotic German" - Gothic was a separate language that died before the invention of printing; the weird-looking typeface that survived up to the Third Reich is called Fraktur, and you can find ordinary modern German text printed in it). Is there on net a search engine where the value could be roughly determined ? If you have a sixteenth-century copy the only way you'll find out is to auction it. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
"Tom" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I am new to this group. I was wondering where on net I could at least roughly determine the fair value of a book that has been kept in my family for many years. The book is "War of the Jews", written in ghotic German, So how come it's got an English title ? M. Regards Tom |
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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
http://addall.com/used/searches several booksellers' databases. I found two copies of your title: http://snipr.com/1nwwy-- does either resemble what you have? Kris- Hi, here's Tom with Josephus Flavius issue again... Thanks for your responses. I'm not knoledgeable about books and English is not my mother tongue so excuse me that I may be inaccurate in my descriptions. -1. first - I found on net an e x a c t image jpg of what the first page of the book looks like. it's at German wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Josephus (in the middle on the right in the section "Werk") http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Fl...on_of_1552.jpg (direct link) In the image, furthest at the bottom, there is written something like that "zu Frankfurt am Meyn/ Bei Ch. Egenolff", which is exactly what stands in my book. As you can see from the image, the title is "Judische Chronic" At the very end of my book, the same inscription is repeated: "Gedruckt (so *printed*) zu Frankfurt am Meyn/ Bei Ch. Egenolff M.D.LII." end of citation -2.secondly, it's not a reprint because the book was examined by Archives specialist, or however they might be called, from National Library Institute in my country and the book was confirmed to date back to 1552 - so paper in this book is guaranteed to have over 400 years. (but the impractical thing about dealing with National Library in my country is that they want the book donated to them because they don't have money to buy it) So the book being the German translation of the work by Flavius was printed in 1552 - but of course original work by Flavius was written in 75-79 (first century), as this German Wikipedia states -3.Thanks for showing me the difference between "ghotic" and Fraktur typeface - indeed when I looked up some web pages about Fraktur I am sure that the book is written in that typeface, which shows in that jpg image at German Wiki -4.Sorry about naming it in English title, I just used the name of that work by Flavius which I found on English Wikipedia on Flavius In fact there is no English word in this book. -5. I probaly found this book at http://www.addall.com/used/ as you suggested me that I should under the right title: "Judische Chronic" Thanks for giving me directions, sorry for lengthy post... Tom |
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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
Tom wrote:
http://addall.com/used/searches several booksellers' databases. I found two copies of your title: http://snipr.com/1nwwy-- does either resemble what you have? Kris- Hi, here's Tom with Josephus Flavius issue again... Thanks for your responses. I'm not knoledgeable about books and English is not my mother tongue so excuse me that I may be inaccurate in my descriptions. -1. first - I found on net an e x a c t image jpg of what the first page of the book looks like. it's at German wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Josephus (in the middle on the right in the section "Werk") http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Fl...on_of_1552.jpg (direct link) In the image, furthest at the bottom, there is written something like that "zu Frankfurt am Meyn/ Bei Ch. Egenolff", which is exactly what stands in my book. As you can see from the image, the title is "Judische Chronic" At the very end of my book, the same inscription is repeated: "Gedruckt (so *printed*) zu Frankfurt am Meyn/ Bei Ch. Egenolff M.D.LII." end of citation -2.secondly, it's not a reprint because the book was examined by Archives specialist, or however they might be called, from National Library Institute in my country and the book was confirmed to date back to 1552 - so paper in this book is guaranteed to have over 400 years. (but the impractical thing about dealing with National Library in my country is that they want the book donated to them because they don't have money to buy it) So the book being the German translation of the work by Flavius was printed in 1552 - but of course original work by Flavius was written in 75-79 (first century), as this German Wikipedia states -3.Thanks for showing me the difference between "ghotic" and Fraktur typeface - indeed when I looked up some web pages about Fraktur I am sure that the book is written in that typeface, which shows in that jpg image at German Wiki -4.Sorry about naming it in English title, I just used the name of that work by Flavius which I found on English Wikipedia on Flavius In fact there is no English word in this book. -5. I probaly found this book at http://www.addall.com/used/ as you suggested me that I should under the right title: "Judische Chronic" Thanks for giving me directions, sorry for lengthy post... Tom Interesting. Does your book fit the description for the book shown in the AddAll listings? Francis A. Miniter |
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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
On Jul 6, 6:16 am, Tom wrote:
Hi, I am new to this group. I was wondering where on net I could at least roughly determine the fair value of a book that has been kept in my family for many years. The book is "War of the Jews", written in ghotic German, German translation from the year 1552 of the important work of Josephius Flavius ("De bello Judaico" in 7 parts). We know that the book is rather valuable not only because of almost 500 years since it was written but also mainly because of its illustrations contained in it. Is there on net a search engine where the value could be roughly determined ? Or a place on net where to contact with dealers to value it ? Or a place on net worth recommending where prosp. buyers and sellers can meet ? Thanks for any info Is this the edition published by Biggus Dickus? |
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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
Interesting. Does your book fit the description for the book shown in the
AddAll listings? Francis A. Miniter Hi, here's Tom with Josephus Flavius our book perfectly fits that description - the year, the publisher Egenolff Frankfurt am Main, the elaborate lenghty title -word in word the same, the woodcuts as for Mr. Bi Di , we rely on what we were told by people from Nat. Libr. in our country who confirmed authenticity and what is more important wanted the book to its collection. They probably wouldnt rather want something that is fake like a modern reprint but to be honest, our family is rather dissapointed since yesterdey when we found out the price. We inmodestly counted on a figure with maybe one more digit So the book will probably stay in our family for another 5 centuries to increase in value ! Thanks for addAll.com link Tom |
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how determine the value (Josephus Flavius)
A good resource to get a market value of a book is www.abebooks.com
"Tom" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, I am new to this group. I was wondering where on net I could at least roughly determine the fair value of a book that has been kept in my family for many years. The book is "War of the Jews", written in ghotic German, German translation from the year 1552 of the important work of Josephius Flavius ("De bello Judaico" in 7 parts). We know that the book is rather valuable not only because of almost 500 years since it was written but also mainly because of its illustrations contained in it. Is there on net a search engine where the value could be roughly determined ? Or a place on net where to contact with dealers to value it ? Or a place on net worth recommending where prosp. buyers and sellers can meet ? Thanks for any info Regards Tom |
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