hey how's it going hi so what do we have here I brought you some beautiful
historical books these are the 1814 1815 publication of the naval history of the
United States that are signed by President John Adams oh sweet
so this is the history of the United States Navy that's cool yes we had the
most high-tech ships in the world the USS Constitution had the nickname Old
Ironsides that's because in the war of 1812 mm-hmm a British frigate fired on
it the cannonballs bounced off the side of it sites so we have inside of each
book is a book plate from the personal library of President John Adams whoa
that's fancy the publisher signed these books and gave them as a gift to
president John Adams right here okay there's one other additional fact to
write here the books have been given to Lieutenant Charles Thomas Clark and they
are signed from President Adams that is cool how much were you asking for two
hundred thousand I have sold books that belong to early
presidents for a lot of money before so let me call up a friend of mine if
there's any party on the planet who will know everything about these it will be
her okay I look forward to talking to an expert to see what they think about
these amazing books this is the uber book nerd I was telling you about and
you have something for me to nerd out yes we have two books from President
Adams library she wants a lot of money for them and their books there's a
million and one questions presented as a mark of respect to his Excellency John
Adams Esquire by the publisher that's nice I mean it's part of the history of
how this book came to be in the first place
this is Clark's naval history there's a close connection that John
Adams has to this book so Thomas Clark was an acquaintance of his and he
encouraged Clark to write this naval history in the first place oh that's so
cool this is post war of 1812 this is the second edition and the first edition
was only in one volume and the second edition was greatly revised and expanded
and you know where those revisions and expansions came from Oh John Adams
talking to both Clark and the publisher Carrie about what he felt should be
included so as far as the type of volumes you could have that were once in
John Adams library this is pretty interesting okay
people love presidents and the founding fathers in particular formed a nation
based on intellectual ideas that they were reading so if you have a book that
one of these founding fathers was reading it's kind of a big deal but this
got him a problem because when the provenance is here and then it is
modernly attached here there could be questions about whether this originally
went with that lucky you this has evidence of offsetting which is
only going to happen over a very long period of time these were together and
this is the right book plate for John Adams and there are no red flags from me
as far as tampering that it could have been added on modernly
okay but there is one problem the thing that gets people really excited it's
when you have writing in the person's hand this is not John Adams hand and
this is 1817 Adams suffered from palsy he very often wouldn't write things
himself you can still find letters from this time but he had secretaries do a
lot of his writing that means you're losing one of the major reasons that
people collect such a volume so for that reason I would evaluate this more around
the range of ten to twelve thousand okay Wow
Thanks you're the best I'd help Thanks thank you thank you where I work we sell
autographed letters by John Adams I'm very familiar with his autograph I'm
very familiar with his handwriting it's something that I can recognize
immediately and that's what I did not see when I opened the book today so do
you have another figure besides two hundred thousand the lowest I would go
is about fifty thousand yeah the most I'm gonna go is ten so you have it
thanks for bringing a bed hey cool appreciates to learn about him thanks
for your time Thanks it's unfortunate that we couldn't
make a deal but I'm pretty sure I'll find a good home for them anyway
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