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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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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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First German edition of Erasmus influential guide to Christian piety,
promoting inner devotion over ritual at the dawn of the Reformation

ERASMUS, Desiderius Enchiridion oder handbüchlin eins Christenliche[n] und ritterlichen lebens, in latin beschriben durch doctor Erasmu[s] von Roterda[m]. und ... newlich durch Joannem Adelphu[m] doctor und statartzet zu Schaffhusen ... vertütschet.
(Colophon) Basel, Adam Petri, 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut border by Hans Franck on the title page, 5 half-page woodcut illustrations (including 1 repeat) in the text, Petris device by Urs Graf below the colophon, and several large decorated woodcut initials. The text is rubricated throughout. Modern overlapping vellum, grey endpapers. [10], CXIII ll. Full description
€ 16,000
Early Printing - 16th century Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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First complete edition of Erasmus' correspondence, beautifully illustrated by Urs Graf and Ambrosius Holbein

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Epistolae ad diversos, & aliquot aliorum ad illum, per amicos eruditos, Ex ingentibus fasciculis schedarum collectae.
Basel, Johann Froben, 31 Aug. 1521. Folio. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page by Urs Graf, 2 decorative woodcut borders in the text by Ambrosius Holbein, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Modern blind-tooled red morocco. 12, "668" [=618], [6] pp Full description
€ 8,500
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Very rare edition of a forgotten bestseller of its time: Erasmus’ handbook of the Christian soldier

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum ...
Including: IDEM. Paraclesis, id est, adhortatio ad sanctissimum, ac saluberrimum Christianae philosophiae studium ...
[Paris], Gilles de Gourmont, [after 1518 (and before 1522?)]. 8vo (10.3x16.2). With both titles set within an identical woodcut architectural frame and several woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum. [106], [10] ll. Full description
€ 3,950
Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)
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Rewriting Luke: Erasmus’ 1523 paraphrase dedicated to Henry VIII

ERASMUS, Desiderius In evangelium Lucae paraphrasis Erasmi Roterodami nunc primum & nata & aedita.
Basel, Johann Froben, September 1523. Small 8vo (10.7 x 15.2 cm). With 2 small woodcut illustrations incorporating Frobens device on the title page and the verso of the final leaf, a woodcut headpiece above the dedication, and two woodcut decorated initials. Modern blind-tooled marbled calf. [275] ll. Full description
€ 2,250
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Why the Holy Roman Emperor should not respond with violence to the rise of Protestantism

[ERASMUS, Desiderius]. Ursach, warumb Erasmus vo[n] Roterodam, in einer schrifft an den Bepstlichen Legaten und Cardinal Compeium, bedenckt, das es nicht gut sein sol das Rö. Key. Maiestat, die Lutherische, und andere lere mit dem schwerdt dempffe &c. In Sibenzehen Artickel gestellet.
[Strasbourg or Nuremberg, Georg Ulricher or Wolfgang Heußler, 1531 or 1546]. 4to. Modern blind-tooled, mottled calf, with a double fillet border on both boards. [3], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Broadsides & Pamphlets Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Law & Politics Philosophy & Humanism
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The first complete edition of The praise of folly, revised and expanded by Erasmus himself

ERASMUS, Desiderius Apophthegmatum opus cum primis frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso recognitum autore ... locupletatum insuper quum varijs per totum accessionibus, tum duobus libris in fine adiectis.
Basel, Froben Office (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius), 1532, Small fol (20 x 30.9 cm). With 9 decorated metalcut initials, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printers device on the title page and final page. 19th-century blind-tooled brown half morocco. [8], 401, [1], [14] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Important for the biography of Erasmus, including hitherto unpublished letters by Erasmus

ERASMUS, Desiderius and Petrus SCRIVERIUS (editor). Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis æqualibus fideliter descripta; accedunt epistolæ illvstres plus quam septuaginta, quas ætate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent. P. Scriverii, & fautorum auspicijs.
Leiden, Govert Basson, 1615. 12mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a woodcut roundel with portrait of Erasmus on leaf 5, a divisional title page for Erasmus' letters, and a few woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary vellum. [24], 286, [2 blank]. Full description
€ 1,250
Bibliography & Biography Erasmus
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