Elzevier Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Duodecimo. [xxiv]ff., 304pp., ivff. *12-**12, A12-N12. First Elzevir edition, second state of five. Engraved title by Cornelius Claes Duysend, and woodcut author portrait and tailpiece. Seventeenth-century calf, repaired. Willems 433; Copinger 4653; Schweiger 1065; Graesse VII, 59; Ebert IV, 1843; Berghman 2155; Updike II, p. 17; Not in Rahir. A very good copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 vols. 12mo. (8)ff including engraved title + 400pp; (1)f + pp403-726 + (1)f + pp727-746 + (8)ff. With engraved plate showing the Caesars by Cor. Cl. Duysent on verso of leaf 8 and large folding plate of a family tree. Calf, gilt; rebacked. This Elzevier edition of Tacitus' Histories is valued particularly for the notes by Grotius on pp727-746. Brunet V, 634. Pieters p102. Rahir 507. Willems 509.…

Amsterdam, Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1635, in-12°, 128 mm, (24) nn pp + 561 pp + (70)nn pp, with engraved title-page, 5 full page woodcuts, portrait and three folding engraved maps. Bound in contemporary full overlapping vellum, small stain on spine, some old marginal notes in ink with some neat underlinings, title and portrait with slight traces of old colouring, notwithstanding these remarks a very fine and tall copy. Willems 420. First edition, second impression with a sirene in woodcut at the head of the second leaf and page 238 misnumbered (248 instead). Willems writes very laudatory remarks on this edition and considers it to be the finest of all the Elzevier productions. He explicitly writes on our edition ; '' cette réimpression (de la première édition) est admirablement exécutée (et) copie ligne pour ligne l'édition originale ''.…