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Rare collection of seven morality plays

[DUTCH MORALITY PLAYS - REDERIJKERS]. Zeven spelen, van die wercken der bermherticheyd. In rym ghemaeckt en nu tot Aemstelredam opentlyck ghespeelt, Anno 1591
Amsterdam, H. J. Muller, 1591. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, and 6 woodcut illustrations at the beginning of the plays. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. [302] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Amsterdam Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Religion (16th Century)
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Pro-war pamphlet by a patriotic nobleman

[PAMPHLET - DUTCH-SPANISH WAR]. Een goedt advijs, opt stuck vande vrede ende oorloghe in dese Nederlanden: by een edel-man ende oprecht lief-hebber syns vader-landts ende der ghemeyner ruste, aen eenen synen goeden vriendt, by forme van missive, overgheschreven. Na de copie.
[Delft], [Aelbrecht Hendricksz.], 1584. 4to. Woodcut interlaced capital 'o' on title, woodcut headpiece. (14, 2 blank) pp. Full description
€ 395
Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Netherlands Spain
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Rare pamphlet from the entourage of William the Silent, Prince of Orange

[DUTCH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE]. Abschrifft und gruendlicher Bericht eines schreibens der Ritterschafft, Edlen, und Stett, in Holland, in namen und von wegen der Stende derselben Landtschafft, an die Herren, welche das ampt aller Stend der Niderland tragen: Sie darinnen vermanet, dass sie einhelliglich (der Koeniglichen Man von Spannien zu gutem) dieselbige Land, auss des Hertzogen von Alba, und seiner Spanniart gewalt und Tiranney, widerumb zu ihrer alten Welfart und Freiheit helffen bringen.
[Germany?], 1574. 4to. With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page. Modern boards. [37], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,250
Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics Spain
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The 1515 Leuven edition of Erasmus’s first Psalm commentary

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enarratio in primum psalmum davidicum potissimum iuxta tropologiam. Martini Dorpii ... ad eundem epistola, de moriae encomio, deque novi testamenti ad graecos codices emendatione. Erasmi ad Dorpium suos labores defendentis copiosa & plaenae eloquentiae apologia ...
Leuven, Thierry Martins, October 1515. 4to. With the title page printed in red and black, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a full-page woodcut printers device at the end of the work. 19th-century gold-tooled half brown morocco. [44] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Religion (16th Century)
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The method and morals of learning: an early Erasmus collection

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De ratione studii, ac legendi interpretandique auctores libellus aureus. Officiu[m] discipulorum ex Quintiliano. Qui primo legendi, ex eodem. Erasmi concio de puero Iesu in schola coletica Londini instituta p[ro]nu[n]cia[n]da. Eiusdem expostulatio Iesu ad mortales. Eiusdem carmina scholaria.
(Colophon) Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, April 1516. 4to. With a woodcut decorated title frame and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Modern brown pigskin. XXIII, [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 7,500
Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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First edition of Erasmus' call for reform of the Catholic Church

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Sileni Alcibiadis ... Cum Scholijs Ioannis Frobenij, pro graecarum uocum & quorundam locorum apertiori intelligentia ad calcem adiectis.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, April 1517. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 4 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of each part. Including: IDEM. Scarabeus. Cum shcoliis[!], in quibus Graeca potissimum, quae passim inserta sunt, exponuntur.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, May 1517. Late 19th-century or early 20th-century boards, red edges. 42 ll. Full description
€ 4,000
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Literature Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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A Renaissance Latin edition of Plutarchs Opuscula, moral and philosophical treatises
translated by Erasmus and others

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Plutarchi Chaerone[n]s opuscula quaeda[m] Des. Erasmo Roterodamo, Stephano Nigro, Angelo Barbato, Bilibaldo Pirckheymero, & Philippo Melanchthone Brettano, interpretibus.
(Colophon) Basel, Johann Froben, September 1518. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page, the first page of the dedication, the first page of the text (A3r), and the first page of the text by Stephanus Niger (H2r), 18 woodcut decorated initials, and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device. 19th-century richly gold-tooled quarter red morocco. 194, [2] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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A life in letters: Erasmus’ Vita of St Jerome

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Eximii doctoris Hieronymi Stridonensis vita, ex ipsius potissimum literis contexta.
Basel, (Colophon) Johann Froben, May 1519. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page and on page 3, a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern beige paper boards. 70, [2] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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First edition of the preface to Erasmus' Latin translation of the New Testament,
illustrated by Hans Holbein the Younger

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraclesis, id est, adhortatio ad sanctissimam ac saluberrimum Christianae philosophiae studium, ut videlicet evangelicis ac apostolicis literis legendis, si non sola, saltem prima cura tribuatur.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, February 1519. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border by Hans Holbein, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device on the last page. Modern marbled boards, red edges. 19, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Religion (16th Century)
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Uniting four Pauline Epistles: the first edition of Erasmus’ collected paraphrases

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli apostoli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas, quae co[m]mentarii vice esse possunt.
Basel, Hieronymus Froben, January 1520. Small 8vo (10.1 x 15.3 cm). With 5 woodcut frames (on the title page, and at the start of each text (Corinthians in two parts)), 10 woodcut decorated initials, 3 woodcut ornaments, and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device above the colophon on the last page. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on three supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, author and title lettered on a separated paper label at the head of the spine, and with remnants of four pairs of red closing ties. "465" [= 495], [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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