how you doing son fine what do we got here
this is a book that belonged isaac newton it was printed in 1546. sweet that's pretty cool
did you know who isaac newton was he said everything goes up must come down
that's one way of putting it i guess
i decided to come into the pawn shop today to try and sell my book that belonged to
isaac newton's library amazingly enough i found it wrapped up in a box in bubble wrap that was
in with my father's things i don't know what the book is worth but if it did belong to isaac newton
it should be worth thousands everyone has heard the story about the apple falling on newton's head
and that's the way he figured out gravity that never happened all he saw was an apple fall off
the tree somehow the story got changed over the years what's the book about uh it's about geology
and mining that newton was very much into it doesn't look like it's in english it's in uh
latin it's very interesting piece isaac newton was one of the greatest thinkers of all time he
figured out gravity improved the telescope figured out a funny type of math that we call calculus
the man definitely knew a thing or two how come you think i was a newton on this boat well if we
open up the front cover this is the book plate for isaac newton it shows the case location
and barnsley park which was in england where the book was stored and these turned corners
are a thing that isaac newton did to a lot of his books when he wanted to save a page
i imagine a book that's old is pretty valuable but if eyes and you'd known it the sky is the limit
you want to punt it sell it i would like to sell it do you have any idea what it would be worth
i having a clue i can assume that it's real but i'm not that knowledgeable on books
what's your god tell you boss what my gut tells me don't count when it comes to something like
this to me so i'm going to call an expert in and we'll go from there for if this book is real
it's worth a lot of money it'll work all right thank you very much thank you i'm really excited
to hear what the appraiser says to find out what this book could be worth what's going on
i own academy fine books here in las vegas i've been in the book business for over 30 years well
what would you like to know about this book i need authentication and
did it belong to newton well we can see the book was published in 1546 by george agricola
a scientist he's known as the father of mineralogy in this day they were very interested in changing
different minerals into gold how can you mean right yes isaac newton was very interested in
alchemy back when this book was written people thought alchemy was witchcraft
so only the higher educated people knew about this book now there's a little bit of bad news
this is not the original binding this book was restored it was re-backed this
was repaired probably done in the 1700s the book play is from newton's library
this number here j9-s7 is newton's shelf number where he would have stored the book so this book
was owned by isaac newton great
that's good news that's just phenomenal you do not see this book every day this is a classic
that's all great but what kind of value do we have on this thing well i think this book wood retail
it has a value of twenty thousand dollars wow wow yes very nice find your father had very good taste
yes he did well thank you for coming in this book was owned by isaac newton what more can i say
one of the greatest scientists of all time so what are you trying to get out of this huh
how about 15. ain't no way if you could live with 5 000 that's what i'll pay
ah that's that's too low you can't do 10. no 5 is where i'd want to be in this could you do seven
i'll split it with you at six
i can't take less than seven you know if i give you seven for it i won't have
money for dinner tonight if you give me seven for it i'll buy you dinner
sounds like a plan thank you come on over i'll get somebody to write it up
i made seven thousand dollars on the book i think it could be worth more but it's a great price
i'm glad that they're gonna enjoy it
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