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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9540432, member: 10944"]Responded to a local ad yesterday about some free books. Didn’t look up the address and went to pick them up today. On my way there they told me there was some left but that in between my initial contact and then the books had been picked over by others. I nearly turned around but was already ten mins into my thirty min drive and was curious. I got there and looked at the list of business’s by floor and saw the name of an antique book dealer. I had not realized what the source of the books was. So I go in and some of the books from the ad photo that I wanted are still there, plus a massive pile of foreign magazines. I took a few boxes full and went on my way. Brought a large two volume set inside with my lunch once I was home. The two volume set was on a collection of antique prints. It had a nice bookplate/ex-libris but I didn’t look close. I wanted to see some old prints. Flipped to the title page and was excited to see the books were published in the 1830’s. Flipped further ahead only to realize the books were just a comprehensive list of every print in the collection. Probably 1000 pages or more of just an index of the collection. No illustrations at all, not one. Still interesting but kind of a bummer. Still, they had great spines and would look excellent on a bookshelf of mine or someone else if no one was interested in the subject matter itself, so not a loss. Later in the day I decided to check out the bookplate. Much to my shock…….it is J.P. Morgan’s! There’s one in each volume. I get very excited about owning things that great collectors or great dealers owned at one point. If you just said someone famous owned something I wouldn’t care that much but if that person was a diehard collector it excites me. It’s like a portal into great collections of the past in a way. Tomorrow I’ll see if any of the other old books were owned by that great robber baron. I’m assuming the fact that these books had Morgan’s bookplate in them was missed by the dealer. Maybe they knew many decades ago when they acquired them and just forgot. They had probably been for sale for longer than I’ve been alive and no one ever noticed. I’m sure they aren’t worth a fortune but it’s a pretty neat thing thing to me. That being said I’d love to know what Worthpoint has up its sleeve in regards to the value of one if anyone can help. <a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/armorial-green-leather-gold-emboss-ex-218477314" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/armorial-green-leather-gold-emboss-ex-218477314" rel="nofollow">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/armorial-green-leather-gold-emboss-ex-218477314</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9540432, member: 10944"]Responded to a local ad yesterday about some free books. Didn’t look up the address and went to pick them up today. On my way there they told me there was some left but that in between my initial contact and then the books had been picked over by others. I nearly turned around but was already ten mins into my thirty min drive and was curious. I got there and looked at the list of business’s by floor and saw the name of an antique book dealer. I had not realized what the source of the books was. So I go in and some of the books from the ad photo that I wanted are still there, plus a massive pile of foreign magazines. I took a few boxes full and went on my way. Brought a large two volume set inside with my lunch once I was home. The two volume set was on a collection of antique prints. It had a nice bookplate/ex-libris but I didn’t look close. I wanted to see some old prints. Flipped to the title page and was excited to see the books were published in the 1830’s. Flipped further ahead only to realize the books were just a comprehensive list of every print in the collection. Probably 1000 pages or more of just an index of the collection. No illustrations at all, not one. Still interesting but kind of a bummer. Still, they had great spines and would look excellent on a bookshelf of mine or someone else if no one was interested in the subject matter itself, so not a loss. Later in the day I decided to check out the bookplate. Much to my shock…….it is J.P. Morgan’s! There’s one in each volume. I get very excited about owning things that great collectors or great dealers owned at one point. If you just said someone famous owned something I wouldn’t care that much but if that person was a diehard collector it excites me. It’s like a portal into great collections of the past in a way. Tomorrow I’ll see if any of the other old books were owned by that great robber baron. I’m assuming the fact that these books had Morgan’s bookplate in them was missed by the dealer. Maybe they knew many decades ago when they acquired them and just forgot. They had probably been for sale for longer than I’ve been alive and no one ever noticed. I’m sure they aren’t worth a fortune but it’s a pretty neat thing thing to me. That being said I’d love to know what Worthpoint has up its sleeve in regards to the value of one if anyone can help. [URL]https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/armorial-green-leather-gold-emboss-ex-218477314[/URL][/QUOTE]
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