ELZEVIER PRESS. MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. Opera. Leiden: [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevier 1642. 10 vols., 12mo, 127 x 72 mm. (5 x 2 7/8 in.), eighteenth-century French red morocco, covers panelled with triple gilt fillet, spines in six gilt compartments, gilt ARMS OF THE DUC DE CHOISEUL-STAINVILLE, ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAI in lower compartment, g.e., vol. 10 rebacked, upper inner hinges of vols. 1 and 7 cracked, neat repairs to joints of most vols. and to covers of vols. 1 and 4, small scrape to lower cover of vol. 1. FIRST ELZEVIER EDITION, engraved title and engraved portrait in vol. 1. Willems 535.

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ELZEVIER PRESS. MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. Opera. Leiden: [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevier 1642. 10 vols., 12mo, 127 x 72 mm. (5 x 2 7/8 in.), eighteenth-century French red morocco, covers panelled with triple gilt fillet, spines in six gilt compartments, gilt ARMS OF THE DUC DE CHOISEUL-STAINVILLE, ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAI in lower compartment, g.e., vol. 10 rebacked, upper inner hinges of vols. 1 and 7 cracked, neat repairs to joints of most vols. and to covers of vols. 1 and 4, small scrape to lower cover of vol. 1. FIRST ELZEVIER EDITION, engraved title and engraved portrait in vol. 1. Willems 535.

Provenance: Duc de Choiseul-Stainville, armorial binding as above -- Cardinal Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, Archbishop of Rouen (1713-1800), engraved armorial bookplate -- Mortimer Schiff, bookplate. (10)