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Post by shannondegroot on Jan 5, 2018 3:54:12 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 5, 2018 4:14:37 GMT
Do you mean old as in when written or actual old book like physically old?
I'd have to think on the second.
The first would be the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The oldest book I have read? Maybe an 1880 illustrated Bible by Gustave Dore'. Though it really has little in the way of text.
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Post by shannondegroot on Jan 5, 2018 4:26:58 GMT
Do you mean old as in when written or actual old book like physically old? I'd have to think on the second. The first would be the Epic of Gilgamesh. The oldest book I have read? Maybe an 1880 illustrated Bible by Gustave Dore'. Though it really has little in the way of text. When written or published. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 5, 2018 4:32:03 GMT
When written or published. Gilgamesh is 2100 BC. Is that old enough for you?  |
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Post by Bargle on Jan 5, 2018 11:19:07 GMT
The Odyssey, probably.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 11:34:50 GMT
The Iliad or The Odyssey, i don't know which of them came first.
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Post by Raimo47 on Jan 5, 2018 14:32:25 GMT
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. Myers. It was published in 1903.
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Post by darknessfish on Jan 5, 2018 14:38:39 GMT
The Iliad.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 5, 2018 17:31:15 GMT
Of Mice And Men.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 5, 2018 17:35:37 GMT
1,001 Arabian Knights Entertainments...unknown, my 3 volume edition was translated and published in 1842
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 18:34:07 GMT
I read one of the Canterbury Tales.
Oldest physical book I have is from 1568 but I can't read it because it's in Latin.
Oldest single page I have is from an illuminated manuscript dated to some time in the 1200s.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jan 5, 2018 21:11:56 GMT
Probably Genesis from the Old Testament.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jan 6, 2018 1:58:11 GMT
Gilgamesh
Rig Veda
Iliad & Odyssey
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Jan 6, 2018 4:18:39 GMT
Epic Of Gilgamesh and The Bible. Oldest book would be some encyclopedia from the 1930s.
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Post by mrdanwest on Jan 6, 2018 23:42:33 GMT
The Iliad
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jan 7, 2018 5:53:33 GMT
Probably The Phonograph and How to Use It, published 1900.
Also, the oldest magazine I've read is issue 1 of The Phonogram, published May 1900.
The oldest advertising pamphlet I've read is Jinglebook no. 1: Phonograph, date unknown, but circa 1900.
All three are about record players and records, specifically those made by the Edison company.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 21:42:40 GMT
Oldest book I've read - Job
Oldest book(s) I own - I own copies of Paradise Lost, Chesterfield"s Letters (to his son), Marmion and The Seven Seas and they are all 19th century, not sure which is oldest. I also have a copy of Massachusetts Commonwealth law from the mid 19th.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Jan 17, 2018 8:34:19 GMT
The Upanishads..
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Post by Archelaus on Jan 17, 2018 21:57:57 GMT
The Book of Genesis, as it first appeared in the Torah.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 19, 2018 10:26:37 GMT
Symposium by Plato, 385 bc.
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