mayer.goldberg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> While we're at it, check out:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4d4gay
>
> The only copy found on ABE Books -- at US$2481.19, and the real price
> of the book must be in Swiss Francs or in Euros, because I don't
> believe the seller is that particular about those 19 cents.
2530.00 Swiss francs.
> On another note, have you ever wondered at how silly it seems to
> specify the ****pping and handling charges for books that are priced at
> thousands of dollars and more? The dealers on abebooks mention such
> ridiculous prices as $8 for ****pping -- which is absolutely
> ridiculous. Anyone who could afford to spend thousands of dollars on a
> rare book would not place their finding in the hands of the US postal
> service, et al. I'm not even sure that UPS or Fedex are the right
> courier service for such rare books. There must be specialized
> companies for ****pping such expensive and fragile material.
But even specialists can screw up:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/apr/11/musicnews.music
Years ago I ordered a GBP 3000+ book from Japan and was amazed when it was
delivered by Parcel Force, a British company notorious at the time for
losing stuff like crazy! I still shudder at the memory.
At the other end of the scale, many are the books I've received from the
US
where the price of the book was exceeded by the cost of the airmail!
> Mayer
Patruus
> On May 5, 8:23 pm, Johannes Patruus <inva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> The 500 euros tag for a reprint of Johann Matthias Gesner's Novus
Linguae et
>> Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus:
>> http://www.scuoladipitagora.it/gesner_english.htm
>> might be thought just the merest trifle optimistic when the whole
caboodle
>> is already available online:
>> http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/gesner.html
>>
>> Patruus
>
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