Looking for a Good Book?

The New York Antiquarian Book Fair is underway at the Park Avenue Armory this weekend.  Among the offerings is a first edition of Nicolaus Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), printed in Nuremberg in 1543, the year of the author’s death.

According to The New York Times, the book, which is one of about a dozen copies that are in private hands, is being offered at a price of $2 million.  If that happens to be out of your price range, it can also be found in the usual places, and even in free pdf downloads.  But the alternatives won’t look as good, or feel as good in your hands. Continue reading “Looking for a Good Book?”