I have bibles that my grand parents owned. One is a pilgrims KJV teachers addition(188?,,cant remember,lol,when I was a kid cowboy days) the one I use now is a KJV that was my mothers father's and why is because it has great big words(huge print)....
My father had books from the school he went to in Mississippi as a boy English,Geography, history ect. but the most interisting of them to me was a book about how to farm,use and make(blacksmith) farm implaments and set up the tack fo Ox,Mule,Horse teams ect. . It also shows how to butcher, preserve,cure ect. as well as diognose ilnesses in all farm animals,garden ect. (why is I think that to them the world they would live in was what they saw to teach them,lol)...
The most "frightfull book" in my collection is the part two oiginal of "the rise and fall of the Confederacy" by Jefferson Davis which is a first addition printed in the U.S. right after the Cival war (crazy thing for me to keep right?) but why I say that it is the most frightfull one in my collection is that once I had my wife contact seveal mueseums in Mississippi and to find it's value(I would have sold it,lol) but they ask to have it and put it on display instead.
The thing about though is this while unpacking my parents belonings after I inheirated them me and my brother in law(both wanting the books) spoke about them and decided that they were from my blood relatives that I should recieve them. He though wrote down the title,aurthor ect. and purchased volume 1&2,,,the thing about it is this though if you take his vol.2 and examine it page by page whith my oiginal there are several instances where it has been "reworded,statements ommited or altered from the original"...
In my oppinion I would not discard any old antique books,,,