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Collecting pre-1700 books on a budget
Hello all:
I really enjoy older books, but am on a tight budget for book-buying. I can only buy a few titles a year at less than $500 each. I'm asking for suggestions of underappreciated areas for collecting and perhaps a few ideas on where to look that will get me the most bang for my buck. Thanks |
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Collecting pre-1700 books on a budget
wrote in message oups.com... Hello all: I really enjoy older books, but am on a tight budget for book-buying. I can only buy a few titles a year at less than $500 each. I'm asking for suggestions of underappreciated areas for collecting and perhaps a few ideas on where to look that will get me the most bang for my buck. Thanks There's probably plenty of theology still out there, which would maybe fit the bill pricewise, as they churned them out by their thousands. More so, if you include titles in foreign languages. As with many of these things, you'll probably find that prices are directly proportional to the actual reading interest in the works. Old almanacs, or well established works or historiaclly significant works in English will be relatively expensive (on the English speaking market at least) certainly as compared with obscure Latin theology. Despite the latter being in their original bindings and maybe featuring decorative woodcuts etc. michael adams .... |
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I wrote:
My website's basically down at the moment I don't really know what's happening with my website. It seems to be up again now, but I can't log into it (which I desperately want to, in case it disappears again; I want to make sure I've got an up-to-date backup!). Anyway, here's the link: http://rarebooksinjapan.com/religious/index.html John http://rarebooksinjapan.org |
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"John R. Yamamoto-Wilson" wrote in message ... I wrote: My website's basically down at the moment I don't really know what's happening with my website. It seems to be up again now, but I can't log into it (which I desperately want to, in case it disappears again; I want to make sure I've got an up-to-date backup!). I was hoping someone else would reply to this first. As I can't quite understand why your latest backup isn't on your computer at home to start with. I keep my small number of webpages in a folder imaginatively called "FTP" on the computer at home. Each webpage has its own folder "Penguins" "Pelicans" "Chronicle" etc. containing the HTML code jpg's and subfolders these are transferred as folders using FTP to my site on the ISP's server But all modifications are made and tried out in the home computer. And only transferred afterwards. I use two ISP's, UKonline for broadband and Onetel for pay as you go Dial Up as this is still more reliable for use on eBay. However I can only transfer pages to the Onetel server via FTP using dial-up. And vice versa. michael adams Anyway, here's the link: http://rarebooksinjapan.com/religious/index.html John http://rarebooksinjapan.org |
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I wrote:
michael adams wrote: I don't really know what's happening with my website. It seems to be up again now, but I can't log into it (which I desperately want to, in case it disappears again; I want to make sure I've got an up-to-date backup!). Michael replied: I was hoping someone else would reply to this first. As I can't quite understand why your latest backup isn't on your computer at home to start with. Macromedia Contribute 3. Lets you edit the online page and publish it directly to your website, but doesn't save a copy to your hard disk. I just checked it again and it's running normally now, so I guess I should download all the files on it, while the going's good. The e-mail address associated with the account isn't working; that went pear-shaped a couple of weeks ago and I edited most of the e-mail links on the website to the .org address. Don't really know what's going on there, and have been a bit too busy to put much effort into trying to find out. I did get through to one branch of their support team, but they referred me to another branch and the e-mail bounced. Basically, I got hooked into a free hosting deal at a time when business was slack and now business has picked up again they'd probably like to be shot of me, but I'm hanging on as long as possible! John http://rarebooksinjapan.org |
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Collecting pre-1700 books on a budget
"John R. Yamamoto-Wilson" wrote in message ... I wrote: michael adams wrote: I don't really know what's happening with my website. It seems to be up again now, but I can't log into it (which I desperately want to, in case it disappears again; I want to make sure I've got an up-to-date backup!). Michael replied: I was hoping someone else would reply to this first. As I can't quite understand why your latest backup isn't on your computer at home to start with. Macromedia Contribute 3. Lets you edit the online page and publish it directly to your website, but doesn't save a copy to your hard disk. I just checked it again and it's running normally now, so I guess I should download all the files on it, while the going's good. The e-mail address associated with the account isn't working; that went pear-shaped a couple of weeks ago and I edited most of the e-mail links on the website to the .org address. Don't really know what's going on there, and have been a bit too busy to put much effort into trying to find out. I did get through to one branch of their support team, but they referred me to another branch and the e-mail bounced. Basically, I got hooked into a free hosting deal at a time when business was slack and now business has picked up again they'd probably like to be shot of me, but I'm hanging on as long as possible! John http://rarebooksinjapan.org Both my ISP's, UKonline and Onetel offer free webhosting up to a limit I haven't reached yet. Although maybe that's the point. But still, the pages load far quicker than they did when I was paying Lycos around £4 a month, for nothing else but webhosting. Most months my Onetel bill doesn't even reach £1 - just the odd 10 minutes worth of eBay sniping here and there, but they don't seem to mind. I use Core FTP lite to transfer files back and forth and it seems to work o.k. michael adams .... |
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wrote:
I really enjoy older books, but am on a tight budget for book-buying. I can only buy a few titles a year at less than $500 each. I'm asking for suggestions of underappreciated areas for collecting and perhaps a few ideas on where to look that will get me the most bang for my buck. I would agree that theological and religious books pre-1700 would provide fertile ground for a penurious collector. You need to narrow your field down somewhat, though. You could pick a particular country or city or printer. You could focus on Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, Anabaptist, etc. works. Or you could limit yourself to the works of members of a religious order like the Jesuits--they come with a ready made bibliography, de Backer-Sommervogel. Such a collection would have the advantage of spanning many different subject areas as the Jesuits were, as a group, polymathic. Alternatively, I think a single-book collection could be a very fruitful approach. Among the more traditional subjects a the Bible, the prayer book or missal, and the *Imitatio Christi*. I've applied this approach in recent years to my collection of editions of St. Augustine's *Confessions*, with which I've had excellent luck, finding many 17/c and 18/c editions for under $100--I got a copy of the rare second German printed edition of 1765 for $50--although I've noticed prices picking up recently, e.g., on eBay. The titles just mentioned have the advantage of cross-denominational appeal, they were translated into many languages and reprinted constantly, therefore there are lots of books to go after. I'll suggest a similar title that, so far as I know, no one has ever collected systematically. This is a premium nugget, but, in the spirit of the holiday season, I'll make it freely available: The Italian Theatine Lorenzo Scupoli (c.1530-1610)'s *Combattimento spirituale* (first published anonymously, 1589; with Scupoli's name, 1610). That work--in English usually called *Spiritual Combat* or *Spiritual Warfare*, sometimes more recently called *Unseen Warfare*--has gone through many editions and translations--with Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox versions--probably as often as not without Scupoli's name--and consequently with the name of the editor, translator, or adapter being given added prominence (see, e.g., the famous Greek Orthodox edition by St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain, *Aoratos Polemos* [Venice, 1796]). I think such a collection could be a very interesting undertaking. Good luck. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com |
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Forgot to mention one important bibliographic tool for pre-1700 books
is now online free of charge at: http://estc.bl.uk Cheers, William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com |
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