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A shining example for all French Protestants View picture(s) 1 AMIRAULT (AMYRAUT), Moise. La Vie de François, Seigneur de la Nouë, dit Bras-de-Fer. Ou sont continës quantité de choses memorables, qui  servent à l'éclaircissement de celles qui se sont passées en France & au Pays-Bas, depuis le commencement des  troubles survenus our la religion, jusques à l'an 1591. Leyden, Jean Elsevier, 1661. 4to. 19th century half vellum. With 2 folding genealogical tables. (8), 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Biography  Elzevier  France  History  Protestantism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first work of Joh. van Beverwijck bound together with a work on the waters of Spa View picture(s) 2 BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. Idea medicinae veterum. Leiden, Officina Elzeviriorum, 1637. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Title printed in red and black with printer's device, woodcut head- and end pieces, woodcut initials. (8), 390. (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Elzevier  Leyden  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collected works of a 16th century Austrian ambassador to the Ottoman Empire View picture(s) 3 BUSBECQIUS, Ogier Ghiselin de. Omnia quae extant. Leyden, Ex Off. Elzeviriana, 1633. 12mo. Contemp. red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with triple gilt filet borders on sides and gilt coat-of-arms with the order of the Golden Fleece in centre, g.e. With engraved allegorical title by C.C. Dusend. 575, (23) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Austria  Cartography  Elzevier  Hungary  Politics  Travel & Voyages  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A close friend of Montaigne on morality: into the breath for freedom of thought! View picture(s) 4 CHARRON, Pierre. De la sagesse, trois livres. Leiden, Jean Elzevier, ca. 1659. 12mo. 19th century green morocco, ribbed spine with title and imprint lettered in gold, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. With engraved allegorical frontispiece. (24), 1-264, 295-366, 377-621, (12), (3 lvs. blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Elzevier  France  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Recommended by Hugo Grotius View picture(s) 5 CORVINUS, Johannes Arnoldus. Enchiridium; Seu Institutiones Imperiales, Insertis latioribus materiis, theorice, & practice digestae, & explicate per Erotemata. Editio quinta. Amst., Elzevier, 1664. 12mo. Contemp. vellum. With engraved title, and engraved printer's device on printed title. (12), 644 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Elzevier  Law  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous auction catalogue, re-issued as an important reference work View picture(s) 6 HEINSIUS, Nicolas. Bibliotheca Heinsiana sive catalogus librorum, quos, magno studio, & sumtu, dum viveret, collegit. Leyden, (Abraham Elsevier, for) Johannes de Vivie, (1682). Two parts in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Title in red & black, woodcut printer's device. (2), 374, (2 blank); 286, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Elzevier  Leyden  Libraries & Collections  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two Elzevier editions of important works on medicine and chemistry View picture(s) 7 HELMONT, Johannes Baptista van. Ortus medicinae. Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1648. With full-page engraved portrait of Helmont and his son Franciscus Mercurius, surrounded by eight coat of arms of related families. [36], 800 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alchemy  Chemistry  Elzevier  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Burlesque description of Amsterdam in French verses View picture(s) 8 JOLLE, Pierre le. Description de la ville d'Amsterdam, en vers burlesques. Selon la visite de six jours d'une semaine. Amsterdam, Jacques le Curieux, 1666. 12mo. 19th-century full red morocco, 2 double fillet borders on covers of which one along edges and the other forming a central panel with gilt central ornament and cornerpieces, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. With engraved frontispiece: Minerva with a pointer in front of a map of Amsterdam which is depicted on a cloth holded up by a cuckolded man, she is pointing at the street plan of Amsterdam to show four foreigners and a child, dressed in costumes from all over the world, the ropes of the city, woodcut vignette on title. (16), 317, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Elzevier  History  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Amongst the earliest examples of the catenic form of commentary on the Bible, written in ca. 500 AD View picture(s) 9 PROCOPIUS GAZAEUS. In libros Regum, et Paralipomenon scholia. Joannes Meursius nunc primus graecè edidit, & Latinam interpretationem adiecit. Leiden, Isaac Elzevier, 1620. 4to. Contemporary vellum with pasted red morocco title label on spine with title lettered in gold. Woodcut printer's device on title. Printed in Greek and Roman type. (8), 396, (10, 6 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Elzevier  Greek & Latin  Leyden  Printing [Greek]  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Elzevier edition of a botanical classic, with American plants View picture(s) 10 SPIEGEL, Adriaan van de. Isagoges in rem Herbariam libri duo. Including: (2) VORSTIUS, Adolphus. Catalogus Plantarum Horti Academici Lugduno Batavi. Leyden, (B. & A.) Elzevier, 1633. 2 parts in 1 volume. 24mo in quires of 8 (11.5 x 6 cm). Contemporary vellum. WIth an engraved title-page with an allegorical figure, and a gardener with plant and tools, pharmacological equipment, and a book open to a botanical illustration, and a half-title (= p.223) for the catalogue. 272, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Botany  Botany [Herbals]  Elzevier  Horticulture  Leyden  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Virgil in Elzevir's famous duodecimo format View picture(s) 11 VIRGIL. Opera, Nic. Heinsius rec. Amsterdam, Ex off. Elzeviriana, 1676. 12mo. 19th-century morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt borders on sides. With fine engraved allegorical title with a large swan, and double-page folding engraved map of the sea-voyage of Aeneas from Troy to Italy. (64), 387, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Elzevier  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The important Catalogue of 1674 of the Officina Elzeviriana View picture(s) 12 [AUCTION CATALOGUE]. Catalogus librorum qui in bibliopolio Danielis Elsevirii venales extant. Amsterdam, Ex officina Elzevirana 1674. 12mo. Early twentieth-century richly gilt and decorated orange morocco, gilt and decorated spine in 6 compartments with gilt title, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e., signed by the famous Belgian book binder CHARLES DE SAMBLANX (1855-1943) and dated '1922'. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut endpiece, woodcut initials. 176; 86 (2 blank); 60; 200 (4 blank); 120; 24; 103 (5 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Catalogues  Elzevier  Libraries & Collections  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The life of a Dutch national hero View picture(s) 13 [PIÉLAT, Barthelemy]. La vie et des actions mémorables du Sr. Michel de Ruyter, Duc, chevalier & Lt. Amiral General des Provinces Unies. Amsterdam, Henry & Theodore Boom, 1677. 2 parts in one. 12mo. Late 18th century calf, spine gilt and with red and black title labels, gilt fillet borders and corner fleurons on sides, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, red edges. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's devices on each of two titles, engraved portrait of Michel de Ruyter. (20), 480, 256, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Biography  Elzevier  History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Elzevir edition? View picture(s) 14 [TILL OWLGLASS]. Histoire de la Vie de Tiel Wlespiegle, contenant ses faits & finesses, ses aventures, & les grandes fortunes qu'il a euës, ne s'étant jamais laissé tromper par aucune personne. Nouvelle traduction de l'Alemand en François; où l'on a ajoûté à cette Edition, plusieurs pieces qui n'ont point encore paru en François jusques à present. Amsterdam, Pierre Marteau, 1703. 12mo. 19th century light brown morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with triple gilt fillet borders on sides, richly gilt  inner dentelles, g.e. (HARDY). With fine engraved frontispiece with portrait of Ulenspiegel and an owl looking at itself in the mirror. (8), 247 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Elzevier  Fairy Tales  French  Till Owlglass  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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