Collectors Treasury

A few weeks ago, I met a guy at my local vinyl dealer, and was told about a place called Collectors Treasury...
He continued to tell me that they deal in old and rear books, and vinyl! now this sold me, 'cause I'm totally in love with old books and vinyl.

this week, it was wednesday, me and my mate chris decided after class that we are going to find this place. so with an address and a round about idea of where it is, off we went.
we found it without too much of a palava. we stood outside not expecting much, its housed in a 8 storey building, and we had no idea of the sheer size of this place until we walked in.

inside we were greeted by the proprietor of the establishment, a very friendly old man, after a quick explanation of what we can find where, off we went to explore.

now I honestly don't know how I can explain the size of this place in words, it is awe inspiring to say the least.
we found our way into the rare books collection first, down stairs (the lowest level), and it honestly felt like walking into a museum. it was amazing, books older than i ever thought i would see. ranging form Livingstone's travels through south africa 1st edition to bibles from the 1800's printed in hebrew, german and french. it was amazing.

i couldn't a photo where you could see how many books there actually is!













it felt like we walked into the london museum of natural history down there.

this is the one old bible we found, printed in hebrew, in 1798...

just paging through it, it felt like i was going through history, looking at something, that someone used many years ago to find guidance.













now except for books, they have many collectibles that they deal with, mainly from the era of 1870-1970.
they have millions of old photos, maps, china, paintings and pictures.

one i found and i died a little bit inside when i saw it was an original hand wheel form a sherman tank from the second world war!

pretty damn cool isn't it...

when were done looking at the books, now don't get me wrong we didn't look at all of them, we just couldn't anymore...
we went up to the 5th floor, where they keep all the vinyl, now the old man said they have over half a million, and i honestly thought he was putting it on a bit, but good lord he wasn't joking! we walked out of the lift, and just saw rack apron rack of vinyl! it was amazing, i was in my element and i just couldn't believe it, it was crazy!
after about 2 hours of looking through the records, and finding led zeppelin III and the history of the who double lp, we gave and said we will come back another day...

this place is amazing, do yourself a favor and go check it out if you love old things, but, do it when you ca take an entire day off to look through everything, you'll need a full day!!!!!!

heres a link to their website, http://www.antiqbook.com/bookdealer.phtml?o=collectorstreasury