Elzevir Press | A collection of 17 miniature volumes, in eighteenth-century red morocco bindings

Elzevir Press

A collection of 17 miniature volumes of classical texts, all bound in uniform late eighteenth-century red morocco gilt, comprising:

CAESAR. Quae extant ex emendatione Jos. Scaligeri. 1635, engraved title-page, woodcut illustrations, 3 folding engraved maps

CICERO. Opera [in 10 volumes]. 1642, engraved title-page (for the whole series of 10 volumes), first volume containing Rhetorica, De oratore, etc.

Cicero. Orationum tomus I (-III), 3 volumes

Cicero. Epistolarum ad familiares libri XVI

Cicero. Epistolae ad Atticum, aliosque

Cicero. Philosophicorum tomus I (-II), 2 volumes, signature of Nicoll on title-page

Cicero. De officiis, signature of Nicoll on title-page, another inscription erased

Cicero. Scriptorum fragmenta... Historia Ciceroniana

OVID. Opera. Daniel Heinsius textum recensuit. 1629, 3 volumes, engraved title-page in vol.1, upper corner of title-page and first leaf of text slightly trimmed with loss, cut close

PLINY. Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII. 1635, 3 volumes, engraved title-page

together 17 volumes, all small 12mo or 16mo (Cicero: 126 x 69mm.), printed in Leiden by Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevir, late eighteenth-century red morocco gilt, spines gilt in compartments with lettering on the raised bands, gilt edges, a few joints and spines rubbed; sold as a collection of bindings, not subject to return

A charming collection of small format Elzevir editions.

LITERATURE

Willems 317 (Ovid), 420 (Caesar), 428 (Pliny), 535 (Cicero)