This list of  web collections and virtual exhibits that feature ELZEVIR books was started in 1997.  Libraries regularly reorganise their pages so it is a challenge to keep them up-to-date.  If you discover that a link has disappeared, or moved, please email me.

Collections

The M.E. GRENANDER Department of Special Collections at the University of Albany (amended May 2003)
Pre-1801 European and pre-1820 American printed books and nineteenth-century English illustrated books; about 700 volumes from the Elsevir family, and other materials.
http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/printedmat.htm

University of London Library (added May 2003)
Over 700 books printed by members of the ELZEVIR family, and c 450 books produced by other 17th century Dutch presses in all. From this site it is possible to access the entire catalogue of Elzevirs in the ULL.
http://www.ull.ac.uk/historic/elzevier.shtml

See also - "An overview on Elevier collections in London" by Dr J. Harskamp of the British Library (added May 2003)
http://www.ull.ac.uk/historic/ElzevierLon.htm

The Dr E.B. KRUMBHAAR collection at the Annenberg Rare Manuscript and Book Library, University of Pennsylvania
This is the most substantial collection described on the Web and has some 1,600 Elzevir volumes, including more than 400 Leiden dissertations, mostly on scientific and medical subjects, donated by Dr E.B. Krumbhaar to the Annenberg Rare Manuscript and Book Library at UPenn.
http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/bks/emphilosophy.html

Latvian Academic Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts
This collection houses over 32,000 early books and documents including books printed by Aldus MANUTIUS, FROBEN, PLANTIN, and ELZEVIR.
http://www.acadlib.lv/e/fondi/default.htm

The Junius S. MORGAN collection of editions of VIRGIL at the University of Princeton 
Junius Spencer Morgan (1867-1932), Class of 1888, was a nephew of the celebrated financier John Pierpont Morgan. He began collecting editions of Virgil as
a student. His first gifts of Vergil editions were made in 1894, and in each succeeding
year until his death, volumes were added. The Library has continued to expand the collection. This collection consists of 900 volumes including more than 300 complete works of Virgil.  It includes editions by PLANTIN, MANUTIUS, and ELZEVIR. 
http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/h-tor-z.html#VRG

Biblioteca Nacional, Portugal (added May 2003)
http://www.bn.pt/coleccoes/impressos-raros/c-elzevier.html

Teleki-Bolyai Library at Targu Mures, Transylvania
The Bibliotheca Telekiana, containing some 40,000 books collected by Count Samuel TELEKI DE SZEK, including many from the Enlightenment, became State property following World War II and was later combined with the Bolyai collection. It includes several ELZEVIRs and contemporary printers' works.  http://www.nextron.ch/%7Eteleki-teka/e-main.html
 
 

Ruth Coons WALLERSTEIN collection at the Library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison (updated May 2003)
Madison is home to a collection of more than 60 first and early editions of ELZEVIR, JANSEN, and PLANTIN which were bequeathed by a former Professor of English, Ruth Coons WALLERSTEIN (1893-1958).
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/SpecialCollections/sceal.html#waller

The Smith Collection at the University of Southern Maine
The virtual exhibit of this collection includes illustrations from de Laet: Beschrijvinghe van West-Inden, Leiden, Isaac ELZEVIR, 1630, including a map of "Nova Anglia, Novum Belgicum, et Virginia".
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/exhibit2/sec4.htm

Treasures from the Biblioteca Philosophica Hermetica (added 9 Jan 2000)
The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, founded in 1957 by  J.R. RITMAN, is a special library with a collection area which links philosophy and religion. The library focuses on the manuscript and printed testimonies of aspects of gnostic and Hermetic Christian spirituality in Western Europe.  The collection consists of some 18,000 titles, more than 100 of these are illustrated in this virtual exhibit on the J.R. RITMAN Library website including the Imitatio Christi by Thomas a KEMPIS, Amsterdam, Daniel ELZEVIR, 1679.
http://www.ritmanlibrary.nl/treasures-033.html

"Printing: Renaissance and Reformation" at the Thomas Cooper Library Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina (amended 2 February 2000)
This is the virtual exhibit of an exhibition mounted in 1995.  It includes a travel account of late medieval Africa by Leo AFRICANUS which was printed by ELZEVIR in 1632.
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/renprint/renprint.html
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/renprint/rp6.html

Treasures:  lots more where these come from! (added May 2003)
An exhibition to coincide with the opening of the launch of the Centre for Writing, Publishing & Printing History at the University of Reading in 2000.  Featuring several ELZEVIRS from the University's special collections.
http://www.library.rdg.ac.uk/colls/special/exhibitions/treasures.html

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