Catalogus Librorum Qui in Bibliopolio Danielis Elsevirii Venales Extant.

1674. Amsterdam, ex officina Elseviriana, 1674. 7 parts in one volume. 176; 86, i blank f.; 60; 200, 2 blank ff.; 120; 24; 103 pages. (without the last two blank sheets) Eighteenth century mottled calf binding, spine gold tooled, covers and inner dentelles goldtooled. Edges stained red. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut endpiece, woodcut initials. Manuscript exlibris at the bottom of the titlepage: "dono dedit amicus nunquam laudanddus josephus Colomberius". A note in pencil on the second (blank) flyleaf states that this is the copy that was sold in June 1861 (for 9F) at the second Millot sale (cat. p. 192 no. 1450. A very good and lovely copy. Catalogue of the stock of Daniel Elzevier's bookselling establishment in Amsterdam, listing about 20,000 titles. It is divided into seven parts: theology (176pp), law (86pp), medicine (60pp), books on 'miscelllaneous' subjets (200pp), books in French (120pp), books in Italian, Spanish and English (24pp) and books in German (103pp). No prices were given but these were presumably quoted on request. Included are, of course, the books published by the Elzeviers still in print, and a vast number of other books printed in Holland, and the catalogue is therefore still of bibliographical value. It also served contemporary scholars as a work of reference and may be considered a select universal bibliography [Breslauer & Folter # 68]. Willems says: "En parcourante les vingt mille articles dont se compose cet inventaire, on peut se faire une idée de l'importance de la librairie elzevirienne d'Amsterdam et de l'étendue de ses relations. Mais là ce ne borne pas l'intérêt de ce document. Ce qui lui donne une valeur exceptionelle, non tant pour la bibliographie elzevirienne, puisqu'il comprend surtout des livres d'assortiment, que pour la bibliographie néerlandaise en générale, c'est que le rédacteur a pris la peine d'indiquer l'adresse véritable de la plupart des ouvrages parus sans nom de ville ou avec un nom supposé" [cf. Breslauer & Folter 68, Willems 15, Rahir 8]