Prices of Books
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Prices of Books by Henry B. Wheatley investigates changes in the price of books in England at different periods, taking the value and purchase of books as its subject. The text argues that a high price should not prevent buying books when the buyer has the money, except to withstand the seller’s malice or await a better opportunity. A historical example describes Aristotle buying a few books of Speusippus for seventy-two thousand sesterces.
An account of a collection sale records twenty-four days of selling and identifies Langford as the auctioneer. The discussion says that prices at that well-attended sale did not seem high by the standards of the author’s day.
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- Henry B. Wheatley
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- Pages
- 188
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