# Help with an antique book

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-antique-book/712338>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 10, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-antique-book/712338 "2015-02-10T22:51:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-antique-book/712338/22 "2015-02-14T05:15:57Z")

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> [@ankitasharma](#):
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> ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS…Here you are found books of rare and ancient.

Zero results.

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-antique-book/712338/23 "2015-02-14T07:28:33Z")

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There is this data point at Antiquarian …

> **[Item no longer available](https://www.abebooks.com/books/search)**
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> The item you are looking for is no longer available.

$168 dollars for a well preserved mostly complete book, albiet the young persons verson.  
The pictures are the value here…

A perfect book with excellent colour prints and the full text of the adult version…  
and the unique Jubilee edition, may just be worth … $2000 ?

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-antique-book/712338/24 "2015-02-14T07:42:19Z")

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All pages available here.  
[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/handle/10689/19667](http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/handle/10689/19667)

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-antique-book/712338/25 "2015-02-14T07:46:12Z")

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Maybe its only $200 US… these things were quite common, a lot of people had bought them, and they prevented numerous domestic related murders…

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-antique-book/712338/26 "2015-02-14T15:00:33Z")

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> [@Isilder](#):
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> All pages available here.  
> [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/handle/10689/19667](http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/handle/10689/19667)

Yeah, that’s the 1876 version, of which there are many extant.

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