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
Appendix 1 - Inflation
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
Summary
INFLATION CAN BE measured in different ways, and for many countries historic datasets have to be compiled from multiple sources. In this book, unless otherwise stated, inflation has been calculated using the resources available at measuringworth.com, which are also the basis for the following tables for Britain and the US. Figures for Italy have been derived from Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, “Valore della moneta in Italia dal 1861 al 2021,” www.istat.it/it/archivio/269656.
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- The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, c.1890-1939 , pp. 119 - 120Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2024