First Person: Buying a Book From 1493?

A man walking into a Sandy, Utah museum unwraps a plastic bag, revealing an original copy of 'The Nuremberg Chronicle', one of the world's oldest printed books dating to 1493. Now, it is for sale, possibly worth up to $100,000. (April 25)

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[JogBird]

he might as well wipe his ass with it, given how hes handling it

[wpederson1]

Ooops, I ripped the page... just call me mister butterfinger...

[ben81yap]

He is handling the pages just fine. The book wouldn't be worth its weight in salt if it could not withstand such normal treatment. Books are meant to be flipped through with bare hands and not with gloves or forceps!

[pilgrimm23]

He is handling it fine: there is the snooty librarian approach of the white gloves and get a endorsement from god to look at it, and there is the antiquarian; wash and dry hands and use it like it was intended approach. I favor the later. Librarians put awful stamps on the cover page and markings throughout. then ask us to wear white gloves out of Librarian Guilt

[pilgrimm23]

He is handling it fine: there is the snooty librarian approach of the  white gloves and get a endorsement from god to look at it, and there is the antiquarian; wash and dry hands and use it like it was intended approach. I favor the later. Librarians put awful stamps on the cover page and markings throughout. then ask us to wear white golves out of Librarian Guilt

[virajvv]

Cut him some slack... I mean he looks old enough to have written the damn thing!

[Chipudnik]

wow nice firewood.

[fmflores2000]

@JogBird - I was about to say something funny but yours was funnier ...(thumbs up)

[shepherdschapelDOTco]

AP, Please take this fuck tard vid down. Its torture to watch this guy fuck shit up! Maybe we should just flag it.

[grybold]

This book belongs in a museum.  I hope the buyer donates this book to a museum to be put on display and shared with the public. Unless you bought this yourself and therefore have money invested, I think it is horrible that you are trying to profit off of it instead of donating it to a museum. Maybe the Smithsonian?

[NakedSuit]

Who are the dumb asses???The book is not on paper right and supposed to last another 500 years. They used to print in animal hide thus vellum. How many things did we destroy in Iraq these past decade. Talk about dumb asses.

[elevenpond]

Wow, this clueless old clown has no idea how to handle a rare document?! Hey ken, if you want to make your book appear valuable in a '4 sale video', treat it like it's valuable!!! Don't treat it like last Sundays copy of The Salt Lake City News!!! It's hard to watch him flipping through rare 520 year old sheets of cotton paper with his oily old hands. And the way he opens the book?!?! By digging his yellow finger nail into the leather covers edge! Ughhh. Maybe he did this on purpose? Hmmmm...