![ELZEVIER -- Collection choisie de livres format petit in-12, imprimés par les Elzevirs, avec le prix approximatif de chaque ouvrage. Paris: bibliothèque de J. Chenu, [c. 1850]. 12° (132 x 80mm). ON VELLUM. 14ll. comprising engraved frontispiece arms, printed title with Elzevier device, 8ll. of manuscript text and 6 blanks. Written in a miniscule hand in blue and brown ink. (Leaves cockled and with marginal waterstains.) Green jansenist morocco by Duru, 1850. Provenance: bought from Librería Babra, 1937.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08358_0280_001(elzevier_--_collection_choisie_de_livres_format_petit_in-12_imprimes_p114804).jpg?w=1)
![ELZEVIER -- Collection choisie de livres format petit in-12, imprimés par les Elzevirs, avec le prix approximatif de chaque ouvrage. Paris: bibliothèque de J. Chenu, [c. 1850]. 12° (132 x 80mm). ON VELLUM. 14ll. comprising engraved frontispiece arms, printed title with Elzevier device, 8ll. of manuscript text and 6 blanks. Written in a miniscule hand in blue and brown ink. (Leaves cockled and with marginal waterstains.) Green jansenist morocco by Duru, 1850. Provenance: bought from Librería Babra, 1937.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08358_0280_000(elzevier_--_collection_choisie_de_livres_format_petit_in-12_imprimes_p114726).jpg?w=1)
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ELZEVIER -- Collection choisie de livres format petit in-12, imprimés par les Elzevirs, avec le prix approximatif de chaque ouvrage. Paris: bibliothèque de J. Chenu, [c. 1850]. 12° (132 x 80mm). ON VELLUM. 14ll. comprising engraved frontispiece arms, printed title with Elzevier device, 8ll. of manuscript text and 6 blanks. Written in a miniscule hand in blue and brown ink. (Leaves cockled and with marginal waterstains.) Green jansenist morocco by Duru, 1850. Provenance: bought from Librería Babra, 1937.
AN ELZEVIER VALUE GUIDE, perhaps compiled by J. Chenu for an important client. The first page of the manuscript has a woodcut head-piece and woodcut initial 'A' and the printed heading: 'Collection choisie de livres format petit in-12 imprimés par les Elzevirs'. 76 small format Elzeviers, printed between 1628 and 1678, are all carefully listed over the 8-pages, with titles and value ranges in brown ink and observations in blue.
AN ELZEVIER VALUE GUIDE, perhaps compiled by J. Chenu for an important client. The first page of the manuscript has a woodcut head-piece and woodcut initial 'A' and the printed heading: 'Collection choisie de livres format petit in-12 imprimés par les Elzevirs'. 76 small format Elzeviers, printed between 1628 and 1678, are all carefully listed over the 8-pages, with titles and value ranges in brown ink and observations in blue.