RELIURE DE BOZÉRIAN LE JEUNE Lot n° 5

[ELZEVIR CATALOG] BINDING BY BOZÉRIAN LE JEUNE ELZEVIR Daniel Catalogus librorum qui in bibliopolio Danielis Elsevirii venales extant Amstelodami, Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1674 In-12°. Full tan calf (Bozérian le Jeune, at bottom of spine). Smooth spine decorated with gilded fillets and sets of braided chains. Boards stamped with a cold diamond checkerboard surrounded by a gilt garland. Gilded lace on back covers. Marbled paper endpapers. Leaves on vellum before and after the white endpapers with handwritten note in ink on the 1st: "reliure de Bozerian". All edges gilt. Slight wear. Very fresh inside (a few faint old annotations in ink on the margins of a few initial pages). Copy complete with its 7 parts (176 pp. + 120 pp. + 24 pp. + 103 pp. + 2 bl. ff. + 86 pp. + 1 bl. f. + 60 pp. + 200 pp. + 2 bl. ff.). Catalog of the Amsterdam Elzevirian dispensary then run by Daniel Elzevir, containing over 20,000 entries and organized as follows: theology books (in Latin), French books, Italian, Spanish and English books, German books, law books (in Latin), medical books (in Latin), miscellanea books (in Latin). The titles of each section have been translated into the corresponding language; the German section has been printed in Gothic script. This is a valuable and important catalog, as Willems points out: "A perusal of the twenty thousand items comprising this inventory gives an idea of the importance of the Amsterdam Elzevirian bookshop and the extent of its connections. But this is not the whole point of this document. What gives it exceptional value, not so much for Elzevirian bibliography, since it comprises mainly assortment books, as for Dutch bibliography in general, is that the editor has taken the trouble to indicate the true address of most of the works published without a town name or with a supposed name" (Willems, 15). Provenance: Bibliothèque Anselme Van den Bogaerde (1776-1866), Bruges bibliophile (bookplate) (see Catalogue des livres, manuscrits, gravures, tableaux, médailles, monnaies anciennes et objets divers: formant le cabinet de feu Monsieur Anselme van den Bogaerde : dont la vente aura lieu publiquement à Bruges, Bruges, de Moor, 1867, n° 8644) - Bibliothèque Jules Capron (1829-1897), bibliophile d'Ypres (ex-libris) (see Catalogue des livres rares et précieux composant la bibliothèque da M. J. Capron, Bruxelles, Olivier, 1875, no. 876). A very fine and uncommon copy in a very fine binding by Bozérian le Jeune.