Chuck Bao
12/17/2006, 02:06 AM
This may not be a very exciting thread, but does anyone else like to read or collect old books?
I went shopping at the weekend market yesterday for Christmas gifts and ended up buying a few old books.
I think these books are interesting and I don’t want to give them away. Well, I would except I’m just not so sure there are many other people would fully appreciate this sort of thing.
Tour Through the Batavian Republic (during the latter part of 1800 containing an account of the revolution and recent events in that country) by R. Fell (1801)
Dictionary of English Phrases by K.C. Kwong (1880)
Moon Folk by Jane G. Austin (1874)
I’m teetotally enjoying the 1880 English phrase book written by the Chinaman. That he did that as a educational delegation of Chinese to the US and then wrote a Chinese – English dictionary. And, the Editor of the Webster Dictionary from Yale wrote a hand-written forward in the book and had to mark out a few words, ran out of space and had to write in the margins. The Harvard editor said it shows great industry. (funny foreshadowing?).
The Batavian 1800 travelogue is for a colleague, my company's regional economist who got me interested in this sort of thing and was pining for the the book several months ago.
The Moon Folk book is a children's book. I'm a real sucker for 19th century children's books.
I went shopping at the weekend market yesterday for Christmas gifts and ended up buying a few old books.
I think these books are interesting and I don’t want to give them away. Well, I would except I’m just not so sure there are many other people would fully appreciate this sort of thing.
Tour Through the Batavian Republic (during the latter part of 1800 containing an account of the revolution and recent events in that country) by R. Fell (1801)
Dictionary of English Phrases by K.C. Kwong (1880)
Moon Folk by Jane G. Austin (1874)
I’m teetotally enjoying the 1880 English phrase book written by the Chinaman. That he did that as a educational delegation of Chinese to the US and then wrote a Chinese – English dictionary. And, the Editor of the Webster Dictionary from Yale wrote a hand-written forward in the book and had to mark out a few words, ran out of space and had to write in the margins. The Harvard editor said it shows great industry. (funny foreshadowing?).
The Batavian 1800 travelogue is for a colleague, my company's regional economist who got me interested in this sort of thing and was pining for the the book several months ago.
The Moon Folk book is a children's book. I'm a real sucker for 19th century children's books.