Pretty good.

I have a an interesting old rare book I'd like to sell.

Okay, This is the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, otherwise known as Jay's Treaty.

But what's special about this is this is Thomas Jefferson's personal copy.

Oh, um, this is absolutely amazing.

Anything out of Jefferson's library is really where?

Because his original library, he's sold to the Library of Congress, and then he went home.

One dances.

I can't no books.

Where in the heck did you get this?

Uh, my great great grandfather worked in the senate, and he did at the estate auction of Jefferson's retirement library.

He bought that along with a number of other books.

This all the books he bother.

These are all books he bought.

This is the only one that's still left in the family.

And you can see that he paid 15 cents for it.

Really?

I'm gonna ask a little bit more than that.

Okay.

That is pretty damn amazing.

I mean, you got the receipt.

You can't really get better proof than this right here.

Jay's treaty was a very unpopular piece of legislation, but it was really significant because It was our first major treaty with another country.

So if this book actually belonged to Thomas Jefferson, we're talking a lot of money.

And there's actually something else very interesting about this book.

I believe that this written in here by John Bakley is in Thomas Jefferson's handwriting.

This is super exciting.

I'm assuming you want to sell it.

Is that why you're here?

Yes.

Okay.

And how much were you looking to get it?

I'm looking for 75,000.

Okay, um, I'm gonna call a friend of mine.

I think he actually pee himself over this thing.

Hey.

Hey.

Got a few minutes.

I'm gonna give him a call.

That's all right.

That's fine.

Hopefully we can make a deal.

Good.

Okay.

Thank you.

I'm maybe a little concerned that the expert might not know exactly what this book is on.

If he expresses an opinion with which I disagree, I won't hesitate to set him straight.

Oh, it is what he said it is.

I'm gonna be very excited.

Person.

Well, no, this is the great that he's got the receipt.

That's pretty amazing.

After the British burned Washington during the War of 18 12 all the books went up in smoke to Jefferson sold his private library.

Library of Congress.

If this is truly from Jefferson's library, it really could be an American treasure.

So let me get this straight.

So after he sold all his books, the Library of Congress, he started buying up new books to fill his library.

Yes, he really hated the idea of Monticello being empty, and that was called the Retirement Library, which was sold in 18 29.

After he died, I was in debt.

If I could just flip through the book a little bit more.

Jefferson had a secret way of marking his books.

He would go and he'd find the eye page and put a T his first initial T in front of the eye page.

So, uh, that is what they should look like.

They're Thomas Jefferson was one of most important founding fathers and their very few of his authentically own books out there.

So when one comes up really is a special time, there's also a name written right here.

We don't know if it's in Jefferson's hand or not.

John Beckley is actually important in Jefferson's life.

He was one of the early campaign managers and a friend of Jefferson and early Ally.

I've sold a lot of Jefferson materials and seeing a lot.

And that looks like Jefferson's delegate handwriting.

Okay, so good to know.

Yeah, that's kind of neat.

That is an awesome piece of American history.

Okay, Now, the big question is, what do you think this would go for?

Jefferson to this day remains very popular among autograph collectors.

Book collectors.

If I were offering this to one of my good clients, I'd probably put a price the $75,000 on it.

Okay, Which best price?

Well, 75,000 years.

My asking price.

Okay, I'm a pirate.

$40,000.

I know that seems a big stretch from 75 but I have to make some money off.

It's I don't know if I'm gonna sit on it for a week.

I don't know if I'm gonna sit on for five years.

Okay?

I could, uh, take it down to 60,000.

I couldn't do that.

I will go 47 I'm I'm skittish at that because there's so few people in this world that have that kind of money to spend on a book.

And there's so few books in the world like this.

50,000.

That's it.

50.

You can have it for 50,000.

All walk out of here.

Let me have it for 48.

I know.

I've got a B 50.

It's got home.

Once I go, I can't go Feel sold.

All right.

Um, I own a really expensive book.

You D'oh!

Congratulations.

All right, let's go do some paperwork.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

Cool.

It's hard to see how my great great grandfather could be anything but please, I'm very pleased with.

Got $50,000 for it.

I would have sold it for less than 50 grand.