What's the oldest book you have in your collection, either purchased by you or inherited as a legacy?

A set of workshop encyclopaedia....printed in 1874.
Describing how to make "anything".
An Environmental Scientist like myself loves it!

"The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night,’ translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1885, ten volumes), regrettably in poor condition, narrowly survived a fire, mold, and silverfish. It was left to me in the will of a former fiancé of my mother’s.

It's a collection of children's stories from either the 50's or 60's. It has Little Black Sambo in it and that story was banned in the 60's.

I'm not sure.  I know I have a very old Psalter, close to 200 years old.  I also have a very old set of McGuffey Readers that are probably 125 years old.    All of these books are  in storage right now. This post was edited by Thriftymaid at November 3, 2016 4:20 AM MDT