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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;McAdder, post: 4852051, member: 7942&quot;]Not every rare book is a valuable. In your case I would ask myself&nbsp; two questions:</p><p><br /></p><p>First: </p><p>What good is a book that nobody can read?</p><p>I own a couple of books that are unopened, some I cut open to read, others I left unopened until i find time to read them. In my experience they are worth less because you need to invest time or money to cut them open, most have no beautiful binding that also serves as protection and makes handling them easier. </p><p>(all my unopened books are older than yours, from before 1850, when it was usual to sell books in interim covers and get them bound later)</p><p><br /></p><p>Second:</p><p>Is a book really interesting if for such a long time nobody wanted to open it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Most times the answer to that question is no, which is another reason why this book in my opinion is not extremly valuable. Many books have been written about Napoleon and his times, many much earlier than yours with potentialy &quot;unfiltered&quot; accounts, others more recently with the current state of research.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would not overestimate the different paper, those special editions were not uncommon at that time and unless they have handsigned illustrations by a known artist, or are handcolered they are not sought after.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each of my old exercise books from school is unique, yet no one would pay anything for them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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