Finding the right dealer to sell our book

Our local Habitat for Humanity chapter was given a book that is
extremely old and possibly worth quite a lot of money. Can you folks
on this list point us in the direction we should go with this?

The book is a 1730 edition of Jacob Bohmen's Questiones Theosophica. A
web search shows that Bohmen was a rather well known German
philosopher, although his belief that the Bible would tell him how to
turn junk into gold makes him a bit of a laughing stock today. This
book must have some theological value, as it appears that modern
version is still in print.

This copy is leather bound with an intact although somewhat worn cover.
It's about 4" x 6" and more than 2 inches thick. This copy has an
inscription in the flyleaf dated 1843. There's at least one fold-out
page that is intact.

This is perhaps a book that a university library would like to buy, or
a private collector. We would like to maximize its value so as to turn
it not into gold, but into part of the price of a home for a needy
family.

I don't think this is one for E-bay. We would really appreciate some
informed advice.

Thanks very much,

Gigi in North Carolina
Please feel free to email me at GGfour RemoveThis @cox.net

"Gigi" <ggfour RemoveThis @cox.net> wrote in message
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> Our local Habitat for Humanity chapter was given a book that is
> extremely old and possibly worth quite a lot of money. Can you folks
> on this list point us in the direction we should go with this?
>
> The book is a 1730 edition of Jacob Bohmen's Questiones Theosophica.

Boehme (usual spelling) is still in the histories of philosophy,
but is nowadays remembered chiefly as a mystic rather than
either an alchemist or technical philosopher. This book of his
was printed a century after his death, thus is probably valued
more by its binding than its contents.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)