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Message:: [QUOTE="afantiques, post: 29888, member: 25"]Simple rule of thumb is if it's later than 1800, for interesting subjects, or 1700 for boring ones, the likely market is as decor. There is a reason for this. The rise of popular education, education for everyman meant more readers, more books published, and many many more books preserved. Without exhaustive examination, your list looks pretty well routine 19th C stuff. Medicine, science, navigation,  farming,  animals and exotic subjects like circuses and steam engines can do well, also engineering, etc. Stuff that people do now, but differently, is interesting. Usually to the people that do it, so doctors buy medical books, etc.  Religion, language and math and general improving works are not interesting. Or occasionally they interest people who have no money. Although this one sounds potentially interesting if it is not a typo. No.18 "Sketches of the Way to Glory and Immorality" but I suspect immorality and how to achieve it was not the main theme. Sorry to be such a wet blanket, but the fact is that most books, with a few notable exceptions that happen to be fashionable, like some modern first editions are remarkable hard to sell for more than nickels and dimes.[/QUOTE]