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  • RICK HARRISON: Hey.

  • How's it going?

  • HEIDI: Hi.

  • RICK HARRISON: So what do we have here?

  • HEIDI: I brought you some beautiful historical books.

  • These are the 1814-1815 publication

  • of the "Naval History of the United C

  • that are signed by President John Adams.

  • RICK HARRISON: Oh, sweet.

  • So this is the history of the United States Navy?

  • That's cool.

  • HEIDI: Yes.

  • We've had the most high-tech ships in the world.

  • The USS Constitution had the nickname Old Ironsides.

  • That's because in the War of 1812,

  • a British frigate fired on it.

  • The cannon balls bounced off the side of it.

  • HEIDI: That's awesome.

  • RICK HARRISON: And they got the nickname Old Ironsides.

  • So we have--

  • HEIDI: Inside of each book is a book

  • plate from the personal library of President John Adams.

  • RICK HARRISON: Whoa.

  • That's fancy.

  • HEIDI: The publisher signed these books

  • and gave them as a gift to President John Adams

  • right here.

  • RICK HARRISON: OK.

  • HEIDI: There's one other additional fact, too.

  • Right here, the books have been given

  • to Lieutenant Charles Thomas Clark,

  • and they are signed from President Adams.

  • That is cool.

  • How much were you asking for them?

  • $200,000.

  • I've sold books that belonged to early presidents

  • for a lot of money before, so let

  • me call up a friend of mine.

  • If there's anybody on the planet who will know everything

  • about these, it will be her.

  • OK, sounds great.

  • I look forward to talking to an expert to see what they think

  • about these amazing books.

  • [ding]

  • This is the uber book nerd I was telling you about.

  • HEIDI: Wonderful.

  • And you have something for me to nerd out?

  • Um, yes.

  • We have two books from President Adams' library.

  • She wants a lot of money for them, and I don't know.

  • They're books.

  • There's a million and one questions.

  • Oh.

  • "Presented as a mark of respect to his excellency, John Adams,

  • Esquire, by the publisher."

  • That's nice.

  • I mean, it's part of the history of how this book

  • came to be in the first place.

  • This is "Clark's Naval History."

  • There's a close connection that John Adams has to this book.

  • So Thomas Clark was an acquaintance of his,

  • and he encouraged Clark to write this naval history

  • in the first place.

  • Oh, that's so cool.

  • This is post-War of 1812.

  • This is the second edition.

  • And the first edition was only in one volume.

  • And the second edition was greatly revised and expanded.

  • And you know where those revisions

  • and expansions came from?

  • Hmm?

  • John Adams talking to both Clark and the publisher Carey

  • about what he felt should be included.

  • So as far as the type of volumes you

  • could have that were once in John Adams' library,

  • this is pretty interesting.

  • RICK HARRISON: OK.

  • People love presidents.

  • And the founding fathers in particular

  • formed a nation based on intellectual ideas

  • that they were reading.

  • So if you have a book that one of these founding fathers

  • was reading, it's kind of a big deal.

  • But this, kind of a problem.

  • Because when the provenance is here

  • and then it is modernly attached here,

  • there can be questions about whether this

  • originally went with that.

  • Lucky you, this has evidence of offsetting,

  • which is only going to happen over

  • a very long period of time.

  • These were together.

  • And this is the right book plate for John Adams.

  • And there are no red flags for me

  • as far as tampering that it could

  • have been added on modernly.

  • RICK HARRISON: OK.

  • But there is one problem.

  • The thing that gets people really excited

  • is when you have writing in the person's hand.

  • This is not John Adams' hand.

  • And this is 1817.

  • Adams suffered from palsy.

  • He very often wouldn't write things himself.

  • You can still find letters from his time.

  • But he had secretaries do a lot of his writing.

  • That means you're losing one of the major reasons

  • that people collect such a volume.

  • So for that reason, I would evaluate

  • this more around the range of $10,000 to $12,000.

  • RICK HARRISON: OK.

  • Wow.

  • Thanks.

  • You're the best.

  • REBECCA ROMNEY: Glad to help. Thanks.

  • Thank you.

  • Take care.

  • Where I work, we sell autographed letters

  • by John Adams.

  • I'm very familiar with his autograph.

  • I'm very familiar with his handwriting.

  • It's something that I can recognize immediately.

  • And that's what I did not see when I opened the book today.

  • So do you have another figure besides $200,000?

  • [laughter]

  • [music playing]

  • The lowest I would go is about $50,000.

  • Yeah, the most I'm going to go is 10.

  • There you have it.

  • - Thanks for bringing them in. - Hey.

  • Well, cool.

  • Nice to learn about them.

  • Thanks for your time.

  • RICK HARRISON: Thanks.

  • It's unfortunate that we couldn't make a deal.

  • But I'm pretty sure I'll find a good home for them anyway.

RICK HARRISON: Hey.

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