Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. The Value of Rare Books
- Chapter 1 Valuing Rare Books in 1920s Germany: Prices in Jacques Rosenthal’s Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta
- Chapter 2 Leo S. Olschki’s Card Index and Potential Profits
- Chapter 3 Stock-books and Ledgers: J. & J. Leighton and Édouard Rahir and Company ca. 1897–1904 and E. P. Goldschmidt and Company ca. 1925–1933
- Chapter 4 Léopold Delisle, Henri Omont, and the Price of National Collecting: The Medieval Manuscript Acquisitions of the Bibliothèque nationale ca. 1900–1910
- Chapter 5 Herschel V. Jones: Public Collections and Private Investments
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Inflation
- Appendix 2 Exchange Rates
Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. The Value of Rare Books
- Chapter 1 Valuing Rare Books in 1920s Germany: Prices in Jacques Rosenthal’s Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta
- Chapter 2 Leo S. Olschki’s Card Index and Potential Profits
- Chapter 3 Stock-books and Ledgers: J. & J. Leighton and Édouard Rahir and Company ca. 1897–1904 and E. P. Goldschmidt and Company ca. 1925–1933
- Chapter 4 Léopold Delisle, Henri Omont, and the Price of National Collecting: The Medieval Manuscript Acquisitions of the Bibliothèque nationale ca. 1900–1910
- Chapter 5 Herschel V. Jones: Public Collections and Private Investments
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Inflation
- Appendix 2 Exchange Rates
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- Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2024