Elzevir Press
Collection of works, 17th century
£530
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Contemporary vellum bindings, contemporary manuscript spine-titles, old manuscript shelfmark labels to feet of spines, titles include:
Hobbes, Thomas. Elementa philosophica de cive. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1669. 12mo, [36] 403 pp., engraved title-page, ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to title-page, printed biography of Hobbes tipped to front pastedown;
[Laet, Johannes de]. Hispania, sive, de regis Hispaniae regnis et opibus. Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 32mo, [16] 498 [2] pp., engraved title-page, vellum manuscript waste used as patch-lining for spine, manuscript initials of Anthony Murray to title-page;
Rufus, Quintus Curtius. Historiarum libri, accuratissime editi. Leidein: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1653. 12mo, [12] 338 [19] pp., engraved title-page, engraved folding map, full-page woodcut, small worm-tracks to title-page, first leaf of text and margins of last few leaves, manuscript initials of Anthony Murray dated 1703 to title-page;
and 6 others (not fully collated, including: Bernhardus Varenius, Geographia generalis, 1664, engraved title-page, 4 folding tables and one folding woodcut plate; Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae, 1665, engraved title-page; and similar) (8)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.