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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 9546024, member: 56"]You'll get very little money from a dealer - probably about 10% of what he'll try to sell them for, but they will be difficult to sell. You've got a hundred years of history and a hundred years of history books between then and now, and the books are not old enough to have much interest as artifacts in and of themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>It will help if this is a set that was considered definitive in it's time, a set that served as a basis for subsequent histories. Other than that, the hope is that incidents and people mentioned in these books have been omitted in later writings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don't know if it's still true or not (the internet has changed many things), but the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica had some desirability long after the publication of subsequent editions because it contained articles that were dropped from those subsequent editions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone who wants them just as shelf decorations won't likely be willing to pay much.</p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion anyhow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 9546024, member: 56"]You'll get very little money from a dealer - probably about 10% of what he'll try to sell them for, but they will be difficult to sell. You've got a hundred years of history and a hundred years of history books between then and now, and the books are not old enough to have much interest as artifacts in and of themselves. It will help if this is a set that was considered definitive in it's time, a set that served as a basis for subsequent histories. Other than that, the hope is that incidents and people mentioned in these books have been omitted in later writings. Don't know if it's still true or not (the internet has changed many things), but the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica had some desirability long after the publication of subsequent editions because it contained articles that were dropped from those subsequent editions. Someone who wants them just as shelf decorations won't likely be willing to pay much. My opinion anyhow.[/QUOTE]
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