Catalogus Librorum Qui In Bibliopolio Danielis Elsevirii venales extant.
Amsterdam, D. Elzevier 1674.
Seven parts in one volume. 12mo (134 x 79). 12mo. 176; 86, [2 blank]; 60; 120; 200, [4 blank]; 24; 103p.
Contemporary stiff vellum with overlapping edges (small hole in the rear cover), manuscript spine title.
“A SELECT UNIVERSAL BIBLIOGRAPHY” (Breslauer & Folter). With nearly 20,000 titles, this is the largest, most international and most important 17th-century bookseller’s catalog. It served a cosmopolitan European clientele. The third generation typefounder, printer, editor and bookseller divided his Latin inventory into theology, law, medicine and varia. He imposed the same scheme on his holdings of French and German books. The Italian, Spanish and English language materials are in three straight alphabets. A fine, crisp copy. ¶Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography its History & Development 68; Bigmore & Wyman, Bibliography of Printing I: 196; Willems, Les Elzevier 15.
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