Beschreibung:

ELZEVIER PRESS. PIERRE CORNEILLE. L'Illustre Théâtre, [s.n.] 1644, red morocco, covers with gilt center- and cornerpieces of swirling leafy stems, blue crushed morocco doublures with gilt dentelle border, by Trautz-Bauzonnet , general title, separate titles for each of the five plays, Brunet II, 283, Willems 570 ("excessivement rare", both citing this copy), Sensier copy, bookplates of René-Charles Guilbert de Pixerécourt and Édouard Rahir (sale, Paris, part 5, 19-21 May 1937, lot 1308) -- GASPARD DE COLIGNY. La Vie...à laquelle sont ajoutés ses Mémoires sur ce qui se passa au Siège de S. Quentin, 1643, red morocco, covers with gilt interlocking strapwork design, gilt leafy tools at angles, spine richly gilt, turn-ins gilt, by Trautz-Bauzonnet , First Edition in French, 2 parts in one, Willems 564 ("un des plus recherchés de la collection elzevirienne"), bookplates of Quentin Bauchart and Édouard Rahir (sale, part 5, lot 1619) -- PIERRE CHARRON. De la Sagesse, 1646, seventeenth-century dark olive morocco, spine gilt , First Elzevier edition, engraved title, variant letterpress half-title (i.e., without the imprint), Willems 601, bookplates of Charles de Bachi, Marquis d'Aubais and Édouard Rahir (sale, part 5, lot 1289) -- PHILIPPE DE COMMINES. Mémoires, 1648, green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges, slight marginal soiling to title, engraved title, Willems 634 --THOMAS A KEMPIS. De Imitatione Christi, [s.d., 1653], blue silk liners , engraved title, Willems 729, bookplate of Mortimer Schiff -- HENRI, Duc de ROHAN. Mémoires (-- Véritable Discours sur ce que s'est passé en l'Assemblée Politique des Eglises Réformées), Paris: sur l'imprimé de Leyden, chez Louis (--Jean) Elzevier 1661, green straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt and blind-tooled central quadrilobular ornament and fan cornerpieces, spine gilt-panelled, by Vogel , 2 vols. in one, Copinger 3941, inkstamp of J.C. Mottely (c. 1830), with ms. notes on edition on front free endpaper, bookplate of Édouard Moura -- FRANÇOIS RABELAIS. Oeuvres, [s.l., s.n.] 1663, 2 vols., covers with gilt roll-tooled floral border, dampstaining to vol. 2 , RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT, titles printed in red and black, Willems 1316, Lamoignon bookplate with shelf mark and ink-stamp (sale, 1792), bookplate of Mortimer Schiff -- [LOUIS SERVIN]. Recueil de diverses pièces servant à l'histoire de Henry III, Cologne: Pierre Marteau [i.e., Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang] 1666, inner hinges split, title dampstained , Willems 1375, bookplate of the Comte de Greffulhe -- RACINE. Oeuvres, Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris [i.e., Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang 1682-83], 2 vols., nineteenth-century janséniste red morocco, washed and pressed , added engraved titles, 9 engraved plates, letterpress titles to each of the nine plays, Brunet IV, 1077, unidentified bookplate with initial R and motto "Bona fide sine fraude"; Leiden, except as noted, together 9 works in 11 vols., 12mo, eighteenth-century red morocco, spines gilt, g.e., except as noted, occasional slight wear to extremities , woodcut printers' devices or sphere device on most letterpress titles, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and ornamental initials. (11)