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The book by the english man dufton 1867 shown below is very rare. International shipping is only to the 5 countries listed. The love of books is bibliophilia, and someone who loves to read, admire, and collect books is called a bibliophile book collecting can be easy and inexpensive. You find a dusty box full of books in the corner of the attic. We invited abebooks customers to tell us about their greatest rare book treasure hunting experiences and they answered with some wonderful tales. When we talk about rare books, we speak of books that have a limited supply. Rare books for beginners national library of scotland. Well known to book collectors and booklovers, our site is an excellent resource for discovering a rough value of an old book. While the anecdotes that fills up much of the front half of the book were interesting, i found it difficult to draw any solid conclusions from them. Flavius josephus the high famous jewish history, 1636. Starting around 1996 the californiabased company octavo began scanning rare and important books from libraries around the world. Skanless bustas cant touch us 1996 sacramento bay area. Specialists in modern first editions illustrated books. However, there is no clearcut definition of what makes a book a rare book.

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