Name: Pawn Stars: Rick Sets Sail for John Adams's Naval History Books (Season 13) | History
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HEIDI: I brought you some beautiful historical books.

So this is the history of the United States Navy?

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

The USS Constitution had the nickname Old Ironsides.

The cannon balls bounced off the side of it.

RICK HARRISON: And they got the nickname Old Ironsides.

plate from the personal library of President John Adams.

and gave them as a gift to President John Adams

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

and they are signed from President Adams.

I've sold books that belonged to early presidents

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

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

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

And you have something for me to nerd out?

We have two books from President Adams' library.

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

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

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

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

And the first edition was only in one volume.

And the second edition was greatly revised and expanded.

John Adams talking to both Clark and the publisher Carey

could have that were once in John Adams' library,

formed a nation based on intellectual ideas

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

there can be questions about whether this

Lucky you, this has evidence of offsetting,

And this is the right book plate for John Adams.

The thing that gets people really excited

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

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Pawn Stars: Rick Sets Sail for John Adams's Naval History Books (Season 13) | History

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