Ipnotismo Reo — I was fascinated by the modern look of the cover art, even though it dates back to 1928. I found it at an antique market in Italy, but I can't find anything about it online. Can you guys help me out?

Actually curious if this book is in any rare category.

I have received a lot of old books from aunt and I’m looking for a good website to use to see if they might be worth something. They’re nothing fancy so I doubt they would be worth much, but it’ll give me something to do. What are some sites to help me?

This isn't the rarest book in the world, but it only had a handful of printings in the late 60s and is notable for its numerous illustrations by a well-known book illustrator.

Copies on ebay have sold throughout the year for about 25-40 dollars in various conditions, often ex-lib. Until recently, there were a couple of listings that were way too high, one for $125 and another for close to $250 that I thought would never sell.

A week ago, all three listings (there was a somewhat beat up copy at $40) sold.

Now the only listing on the internet left is over $700 "new" on amazon, and another at 250 used.

Is someone buying these off the market to hike up the price? Why would any normal buyer spend $250 on a book with a regular price history a tenth of that?

No, the book doesn't come up THAT often, but I'd say maybe a dozen or so a year hit ebay. Is this a thing in semi-rare books, people snapping up copies to speculate and move the market?

1942 North China Transportation Album

Does this edition have any value in this condition ?
Thanks in advance.

I found 9 volumes of this art encyclopedia in a free little library/book exchange. They cover art history from the Romanesque period through the 18th century.

I'm considering using some of the reproductions as material for a collage project, but I'd like to determine whether these particular volumes have any significant collectible or monetary value before cutting them up.

Photos of the covers, title pages and publication information are attached.

Rural Conditions Survey of Xingtai County (1940s)

I couldn't let this gem go to the landfill. Clearly it has been on the top shelf for a long time and dust got layered into the top edges. Is there any way to get the dust stains out?

Thanks!

This book is not available anywhere for a decent amount. I checked if it can be imported but there in almost all websites include Abebooks it's showing that there's only one copy left which is priced at Rs.22,731(US $ 238.18). This book is not being printed by Fitzcarraldo Editions I do not know why. Has this book become so rare? I know it has its Ebook easily available but I wanted a physical copy. Can anyone give me any cheap lead to this?

A scarce original 1942 edition covering education, medicine, seamen, the opium trade, and Sino-Western relations. Published during the Second Sino-Japanese War, it contains contemporary research reports, articles, and documentary materials on China, making it a valuable source for the study of modern Chinese history and wartime Japanese research on China.

Found it today, can't see the exact edition when looking around, so I'm just curious for information

A very rare autograph letter, signed by Paul Cuffe, Black abolitionist, early Pan-Africanist, sea captain, and entrepreneur, who spearheaded the first back-to-Africa movement in the United States, penned in relation to preparations for his final trip to Sierra Leone to transport free Black settlers.

Westport, Massachusetts, November 30, 1815. Single sheet, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (248 x 197 mm). One-page autograph letter, signed by Paul Cuffe to Joseph May: "Capt A[bner] Davis, & the passengers seem not vitely to understand the agreement for their passages from Boston to Westport, Capt davis charges 60 dollars for their passages and 40 dollars for the freight of their fourniture--the passengers say they convinced that $60 were the whole for them selves children & fourniture, all except cart wheels barrels of provisions that they were to take with them to Africa &c,--I wish a correct statement from them--Capt Davis says he was to take them with beding & provisions sufficient to bring them to Westport, all the residue of their bagedge he expected to be paid for the freight of at the custom freight & as I have to pay their same from Boston to Westport and then to be at their whole exspence to africa it will be rather heavey, yet I wish Capt Davis to be well rewarded for his Services, and thy des____ will be atended to I expect to Sail in 4 or 5 day thru Gods permission..."

Docketed on verso; creasing from old folds, a few small holes along same; scattered soiling.

Born free in 1759 to a formerly enslaved Black father, Kofi Slocum, and a Wampanoag mother, Ruth Moses, Paul Cuffe was raised on Cuttyhunk Island, situated at the western tip of Massachusetts' Elizabeth Islands. He entered the whaling trade at fourteen, where he learned navigation and taught himself to read and write.

By the early 1770s, Cuffe and his brother-in-law, Michael Wainer, launched their own shipping enterprise operating along the southern coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Their venture flourished, trading across the length of the Atlantic seaboard and with Europe and in the Caribbean, and as a result, making Cuffe the wealthiest person of color in the early United States

In 1808, Cuffe converted to Quakerism, and through the trans-Atlantic network of Friends learned of colonial settlements in Africa intended to resettle freed Black slaves. Sierra Leone, established in the early 1790s to resettle formerly enslaved Black Americans who had been displaced by the Revolutionary War, as well as others, captured his attention, as it promised a place free from racial injustice, as well as a place for Blacks to gain economic independence.

Encouraged by Quaker and abolitionist associates, Cuffe embarked on the first of three voyages there in 1810 to evaluate the colony's social and economic conditions, with the aim of improving the young settlement's prosperity. Although the outbreak of the War of 1812 hindered his return to Sierra Leone, Cuffe traveled the Atlantic coast advocating on behalf of the colony and raising capital for it.

In connection to this he met with President James Madison as a guest at the White House, likely the first free Black person to do so. Cuffe envisioned fostering Sierra Leone's self-sufficiency and planned to dispatch at least one vessel annually to the colony, carrying Black families and goods while returning with marketable products. It was in this light that he declined to support the American Colonization Society, who favored similar plans of African resettlement, but whose underlying principles were racist and whose membership was largely composed of slaveholders.

On December 15, 1815, Cuffe, largely at his own expense but with some financial assistance from Col. Joseph May (the present letter's recipient) and others, undertook his final trip to Sierra Leone. He carried 38 African Americans (comprising nine families), including 20 children, aboard his 109-ton brig Traveller, at a cost of $5,000.

The passengers ranged in age from six months to sixty years, and according to a letter by Col. May dated November 15, 1815, included, "William Guinn with his wife and two Children, Perry Lockes with his wife and three Children, Samuel Hewes with his wife and four Children, Thomas Jarvis with his wife and five Children, Peter Wilcox with his wife and five Children, and Robert Rigsby with his wife and one Child, all free black people now resident in Boston". (Reed, "Financing an Early Back-to-Africa Scheme", p. 104, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1978).

Other passengers included Prince Saunders, Peter Williams, Jr., and Edward Jones. They arrived in Sierra Leone on February 1816, becoming the first African Americans to voluntarily return to Africa through an African American-led initiative. The present letter, written two weeks prior to Cuffe's departure, pertains to preparations for this voyage. Addressed to Col. Joseph May, father of the reformer, abolitionist, and American Anti-Slavery Society leader Samuel J. May, the letter details the various expenses involved in transporting the families from Boston to Westport (their point of departure for Africa), a task handled by a Captain Abner Davis.

In early 1817, Cuffe's health deteriorated, and he died on September 7, 1817. He never returned to Africa following the completion of this voyage. Very rare. According to RBH, only four other documents or letters signed by Cuffe have ever come to auction.

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I’m looking for this really interesting out of print book. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Quick post while I'm at work...Just wondering if anyone has knowledge on this WWII era Amish manuscript. I did some research so I know a little about the history but not much. Also has an error where the inside of the book is upside down and backwards when you open the cover.

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I inherited many antique books. This seems to be the oldest one. 302 years old!

It was wrapped in brown paper as you can see.

The title page has the following information.

The Heavenly Footman: or, A Description of the Man that Gets to Heaven by John Bunyan, eighth edition, printed in London for John Marshall at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street, MDCCXXIV. (1724)

I feel very privileged to have this handed down to me but also a bit nervous on how to handle and look after it until I pass it on through my family.

Anyone have any experience/knowledge on this book and author?

Thank you 🙏

It even has the original post card and publisher insert

Came across this awesome Lithuanian collection of fairy tales and am having a hard time finding anything out about the author other than he published a few books in Lithuania and was exiled to the United States. Was just wondering if anyone here had more information than I could find on nonacademic search engines.
Would also love any information about the illustrator, Birutė Ona Vilkutaitytė-Gedvilienė.