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Opera omnia quæ extant, ex Optimis Editionibus accuratè recognita Leiden, [Bonaventure and Abraham] Elzevier, 1635 VERY FINE BINDING BY BOZERIAN, FINELY DECORATED. FORMER COLLECTION OF SAMUEL PUTNAM AVERY, AMERICAN ART DEALER AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART First Elzevirian edition Small in-12 (129 x 68 mm). Typographic mark on the title page, woodcut headbands and initials COLLATION : A-O12 P8 : 342 pp. and (5) ff. CONTENTS : A1r : title, A1v : table, A2r : dedication, A3r : text, P3v : chronology BINDING SIGNED BY BOZERIAN. Green morocco, gilt decoration, lattice of oblique fillets with small fleurons, double fillet in frame, long spine very decorated with small floral irons around five mosaic umbilicals of red morocco, lining and guard of pink tabis, double guards of vellum of re-use, gilt edges PROVENANCE: Samuel Putnam Avery, great art dealer and collector of New York (1822-1904; his sale, New York, November 12, 1919, No. 857: "full green morocco, the back filled with a design of flowers with background of stars, small red inlays in center, sides in a diapered pattern [...] by Bozerian, with name on the back") Traces on the vellum of the endpapers, small marginal tears in A11 and D8, old marginal handwritten note erased in H2r BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet, V, col. 321: "of all the editions of this author given by the Elsevier family, this one is undoubtedly the most beautiful" -- Willems, n° 430