Continental books
Collection of works including Elzevir press titles, 17th-18th century
Laet, Johannes de. Gallia, sive de Francorum regis dominiies et opibus commentarius. Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 16mo, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, engraved title-page;Stephanius, Stephan Hansen. De regno Daniae et Norwegiae. Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 16mo, contemporary vellum yapp edges, engraved title-page;Terence. Comoediae sex ex recensione Heinsiana. Amsterdam: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1661. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, engraved title-page, front free endpaper detaching'[Latin authors]. Conciones et orationes ex historicis Latinis excerptae. Amsterdam: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1653. 12mo, contemporary vellum, engraved and letterpress title-page, front inner hinge cracked with stitching strained;Guarini, Battista. Il Pastor Fido. Leiden: per Giovani Elsevier, 1659. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn, engraved frontispiece and plates;Kempis, Thomas à. Kempis commun, ou les quatre livres to de l'Imitation de Jesus-Christ. Nouvelle édition, reoutchée et plus correcte. Amsterdam: Henri Wetstein, 1701. 12mo, contemporary dark blue roan gilt, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece and plates;Erasmus, Desiderius. Colloquia familiaria. Rotterdam: Renier Leers, 1693. 8vo, contemporary vellum, engraved and letterpress title-pages;Aesop. [Greek title]. Selectiores Aesopi Fabulae. Paris: Claude Morel, 1625. 8vo, contemporary vellum, block near-detached from covers, endpapers lacking;Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Scriptae quae extant omnia, historica et rhetorica; nunc primum universa Latine edite. Hanover: typis Wechelianis, apud haeredes Joannas Aubrii, 1615. 8vo, contemporary vellum, front inner hinge split;and 5 others similar. The lot not fully collated and sold as seen (15)
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.