Now THAT'S a numismatic library...

Ummm, here are a few cool old first editions (they smell like heaven)





... sorry, but I can never resist the opportunity to post my wife's cool antique books

 

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I like the floor too. This is the style / color that we just installed in my offices. Cool.

 

@stevex6
Very nice.
For me there is a world of difference between the aroma of clean old books (which I love almost as much as smell of fresh cut lumber) and books infested with mold or mildew. I have a schnoz like a bloodhound. Sometimes it is beneficial and sometimes it's a curse.

 

... they smell just fine

 

Here's my rather less impressive numismatic library: (These are just the books specifically about coins, not general works on ancient history, archaeology, etc.):

 

That is a great @Parthicus , I am slowly trying to build my own, but have a long ways to go.

Harlan J Berk has a pretty great numismatic library in their offices in Chicago, and they are really nice about letting you look through it while there to view coins.

 

..damn the bad luck (but hey, it's really great to be here )

 

hmm. those symptoms.. i've seen them before...

 

While the plot may not be up to Dickens level, there are good books on coins, too.

 

..i collect antique "books", but not really for reading purposes. as for studying about coins, i rely on the puter heavily to look up such. here's a few that are in league with coins

 

O stevers.. i'm lovin' those!

 

I like the musty smell of old books.

Old books fascinate me. The effort and skill that went into carving the plates is incredible.

I have just bought a new house and will install some bookcases as part of necessary renovations before I move in. I plan to expand my collection of numismatic references.

I love that everything has become digitised and that I can access libraries of information from my computer.

But to me, it is still no replacement for reading a novel in your hands, or searching the pages of a reference for a particular coin.

 

For some reason the title of this thread makes me think of Crocodile Dundee. "That's not a knife.... THIS is a knife!".

 

haha! i can see where you'd compare the two.

 

exactly the very same with me on all points. I smell my 1709 book all the time. nutty, chocolate, dust, wood, earth smell all in one. and the smell of time and existence and survival of the object.

 

Those

Everyman books are great. Cheap in their day, and can still be picked up for peanuts, but really nicely produced. I love the texture of the letters impressed on the page that you never get with digital printing.