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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 471632, member: 25&quot;]Early scientific and technical books are very popular with collectors, my experience of selling them is that Americans are the best and least fussy buyers. Poor condition seems less important with US collectors, for some years I was able to make easy profits by buying (in England) auction lots of books that British book dealers simply turned their noses up at because of missing or loose boards and general scruffiness. This was ten years and more ago, i suspect that even the most vellum bound British dealer will have noticed that not only immaculate copies are saleable. I got the impression that British antiquarian book dealers would not deign to pick up a gold coin from a muddy road because it would be a bit dirty and they&#039;d have to bend down. The sort of people who&#039;d wear white cotton gloves to handle rare books, not to protect the books but to ensure their hands remained unsullied.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, back to your book. For a decent auction valuation of your book contact&nbsp; Dominic Winter, a specialist book auctioneer near Stroud. Good pictures will help. To tap the US market ebay was always good for me. Auction format, low start, and expect the majority of bidding in the last minute. I&#039;d often see things quadruple in price as the serious bids came in.</p><p>Bookseller asking prices are always very high, maybe because all the sensibly priced stuff has already sold. Do not expect £950 or anything remotely like it. I&#039;d probably pay £50 to £100 for it depending on actual condition.</p><p>If you have other old books from the same source, the more interesting they are the more they fetch, with books of sermons or religious tracts at the lowest valuation. These religious books are usually in the best condition, not having been read much in 300 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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