Sometimes you find amazing things in odd places.

[crispy317]

Some of you may know of my love of books.  You will understand how I felt when I found this

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[mundivagant]

...

wow.

[xythen]

Holy shit wow!

[mundivagant]

That publication date is 1771, incidentally. Those books have existed since before the United States.

You might want to have those appraised. Or scanned and put on the web. Or both, really.

[crispy317]

I know, that's why I looked up America, to see what it read. I was greatly amused...

I've also sent an Email to Brittanica U.K. to see if they can provide me with more info.

[bork]

Please scan these for the rest of us ASAP. That's an incredible find!

[anam_chara]

That's just incredibly awesome!

As a heads up, you will want to verify if it's authentic or a replica since they did do a reprint of the originals in the last 10 years -- http://store.britannica.com/jump.jsp?itemID=529&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1,2,583

[anam_chara]

P.S. Regardless of authenticity or not, you just got at minimum a $200 book set for $1.50 - which is, undoubtably, awesome.

[mundivagant]

Good point, but the originals were published in 1768. The date given above is 1771. That's a little odd, for reprints.

[anam_chara]

http://images.eb.com/store/ReplicaLI/title-page.jpg

Title page from replica, which is what made me say it. Originals were published between 1768 and 1771.