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For me its this first edition of The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche. 1901. Has red edges, the entire book is in the original German. The typeface is very ornate by modern standards. I'll post a pic if anyone wants to see.

>> No.19072239

Post.

>> No.19072250

>>19072134
dead sea scrolls. i translated one of them and it said something about OP being trans?

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>>19072239

>> No.19072299

>>19072134
Ossian from 1847

>> No.19072314

Probably my copy of Shelley's poetry. Don't know the date specifically, but it has leather and marbling in it so I know its at least before around 1910. Have a copy of Burns in a similar edition dated 1901, so I assume its just slightly earlier than that

>> No.19072394

>>19072280
I mean that's just blackletter type, it was the standard German way until (((Hitler))) deprecated it in favour of roman typefaces.

>> No.19072407

>>19072394
Can that be true? I have a 1936 Mein Kampf in Fraktur.

For anyone wondering: you actually get used to it pretty quickly, like within a couple hours of reading something in it. It's not as fancy as it looks.

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>>19072134
A Finnish bible from 1832.

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>>19072435
Here's the cover.

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>>19072134
first edition 'three lectures on chinese folklore' from 1932

my copy is in pretty poor condition

>> No.19072466

>>19072435
>>19072443
very nice anon, where'd you get it?

>> No.19072469

>>19072466
Finland.

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>>19072407
It's true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute

>> No.19072549

>>19072280
What is that, German? Unreadable.

>> No.19072563

What are some methods to care for old books and repair damaged, stiff, or brittle pages?

>> No.19072565

>>19072466
My father got/stole it from a Lutheran church back in the 60s. The church attic he was renovating was full of bibles like this and he asked the sacristan if he could take one and he told him that he can't allow it but neither can he forbid it so he took one.

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>>19072134
God I wish I had one of these. Nice cover too.

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A 1909 complete poems of Milton

>> No.19074125

bump

>> No.19074207

>>19072134
Either an old set of encyclopedias or a selection of The Arabian Nights; I don't know when exactly either were made but it was 1810-1830s ish.

>> No.19074502

>>19072134
I have a couple of early 19th century books and one late 18th.

>> No.19074512

>>19072280
How can you read that shit? You need to go slowly word by word, this font is unreadable.

>> No.19074543

>>19072134
>>19072280
amazingly good quality for something from 1901

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Algebra book from 1831

>> No.19075474

>>19075443

Comstocks philosophy from 1847, the front cover had a recipe clipping for stuffed baked peppers printed in a newspaper in 1914. The introduction to electricity is humorous as it refers to it as "now an important part of natural philosophy, is wholly of modern date".

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>>19075474
Forgot pic

I'm going to try and collect more old science/math texts

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Definitely my copies of the Knopf edition of Decline of the West. Publication date says Jan 1 1926