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Rare & Antiquarian
Books For Sale

Dimension of Books offers Rare & Antiquarian Books in our collection that are available for purchase.  On this page, you may browse a few of the selections we currently have available.  Each featured book includes images and a short description about the item.  Please feel free to call or email with any questions.  There is also an inquiry form below.  Enjoy!

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Current Featured Collection

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Henrici Cornelii Agrippae
$24,000
Opera (Collected Works)
1600 – Two Volumes

A two volume set of esoteric / occult philosophy.  Agrippae collected works published in 1600.

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Cornelius
de Pauw
$1,875
Recherches Philosophiques sur les Égyptiens et les Chinois (Berlin, 1773–1774)

A two volume eighteenth-century set explores the civilizations, religions, philosophies, and cultural traditions of ancient Egypt and China through the lens of Enlightenment scholarship

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Œuvres Complètes de Voltaire
$8,700
Complete Kehl Edition
1785–1789
70 Volume SET

An impressive complete 70 volume set of Voltaire's collected works, published between 1785 and 1789 by the Société Littéraire-Typographique.

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François de Salignac
de La Mothe-Fénelon

$270
Fénelon's Œuvres Philosophiques 1739

An eighteenth-century Paris edition of François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon's Œuvres Philosophiques, printed in 1739.

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Voltaire

$630
La Henriade
avec les Variantes 1791

Published in Toulouse in 1791, during the opening years of the French Revolution, this expanded edition of Voltaire's celebrated epic poem La Henriade reflects the growing influence of Enlightenment thought in late eighteenth-century France.

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A curated selection of antiquarian gems and high-value collectibles. 

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Lucius
Apuleius
$4,200
Opera
(Works of Apuleius) 1614

A substantial early seventeenth-century edition of the collected works of the Roman philosopher and author Lucius Apuleius (c. 124–170 AD)

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René
Descartes
$420
Les Méditations Métaphysiques (Paris, 1932)

One of the foundational works of Western philosophy, René Descartes' Les Méditations Métaphysiques ("Metaphysical Meditations") remains among the most influential philosophical texts ever written.

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$9,900
Collection Complète des Œuvres de M. de Voltaire
Complete Quarto EDITION
1768–1777
30 Volume Set

A visually appealing eighteenth-century 30 volume French set publishing the collected works of Voltaire, published between

1768-1777

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Pierre
Lassus

$690
Pathologie Chirurgicale 1805–1806

A respected old medical text, this  isa a complete two-volume Napoleonic-era edition of Pierre Lassus's Pathologie Chirurgicale, published in Paris in 1805 and 1806.

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Samuel-Auguste
Tissot

$495
Avis au Peuple sur sa Santé
Third Original Edition 1767

Published in Lyon in 1767, this is the Third Original Edition of Samuel-Auguste Tissot's Avis au Peuple sur sa Santé, one of the most influential medical works of the eighteenth century.

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Pierre
Pigray
$6,300
Epitome des Préceptes de Médecine et Chirurgie (Lyon, 1627)

An early medical work by Pierre Pigray (1531–1613), renowned French surgeon to the kings of France

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Miguel
de Cervantes
$15,000
Vida, y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero
Don Quixote de la Mancha (Madrid, 1765) Four Volumes

A handsome four-volume Spanish edition of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, printed in Madrid in 1765 by Manuel Martín.

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Desiderius
Erasmus 

$2,475
Éloge de la Folie & Galerie Universelle: Érasme 1780-1787

A remarkable eighteenth-century volume devoted to the life and writings of Desiderius Erasmus, published between1780-1787

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Marcus Tullius
Cicero

$930
Orationum 
Two-Volume Set 1757

Published in Milan in 1757 by Joseph Marelli, this complete two-volume edition of Marcus Tullius Cicero's Orationum preserves one of the greatest collections of classical Roman speeches ever written.

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LaVogue

$12,900
Original 1886 French Symbolist Literary Journal Collection

A remarkable collection of over twenty original issues of "La Vogue," spanning all three volumes published during 1886 and representing a substantial portion of the journal's historic first year.

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