Four Elzeviers

Jean Daillé:

De Imaginibus. Libri IV. […] Placuit picturas in Ecclessia esse non debere, ne quod colitur & adoratur, in parietibus depingatur.

Lugd. Batavar., ex officina Elzeviriana 1642. 8vo. (15,5 x 9,5 cms.) [16] + 552 pp. Contemporary somewhat soiled vellum, a few neat library and deacession stamps, contents a bit wavy. Rear hinge cracked open after the removal of some thin work originally bound at end. Willems 536.

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Bernhardus Varenius:

Geographia generalis in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur.

Amsterdam, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1664. 16mo. (12,8 x 7,5 cms.) [40] pp. incl. engraved title + 748 pp. + 4 folding tables + folding woodcut plate.

Contemporary vellum, spine darkened, initials ”I S S” stamped on front cover. 10 leaves or so slightly stained in gutter and into text, possibly by a soiled bookmark or similar. Willems 1330. An English translation was published with commentary by Isaac Newton.

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Pavel Stransky:

Respublica Bohemiae.

Lugd. Batavorum (Leiden), ex. Officina Elzeviriana, 1634. 16mo. (11 x 5,5 cms.) [8] pp. (incl. engraved title with the arms of Bohemia) + 520 pp. Contemporary vellum, spine with ms title and a small blue morocco number label, old auction label pasted to rear pastedown and extending above upper edge. Willems 414. First Elzevier edition.

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Gasparo Contarini:

De Republica Venetorum. Libri quinque. […] Editio secunda auctior.

Lugd. Batavorum (Leiden), ex. Officina Elzeviriana, 1628. 16mo. (10,5 x 5,5 cms.) 448 pp. Contemporary somewhat soiled vellum, ms title to spine, a few old annotations, old printed donation bookplate pasted on verso of title. Willems 293. The first of two Elzevier editions in 1628 (the first altogether was Paris, 1543).

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