History, Law & Philosophy

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

ERASMUS, Desiderius and Zacharias HEYNS (translator). Belli detestatio. Ofte oorlogs vervloeckinge.
Zwolle, for Zacharias Heyns (colophon: printed by Frans Jorrijaensz), 1629. 4to. With a large engraved emblem on the title page, 5 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a woodcut tailpiece, and a tailpiece built up from typographical ornaments. 19th century half brown morocco. [28] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis aequalibus fideliter descripta. Accedunt epistolae illustres ...
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1642.
With:
(2) IDEM. Lingua, sive, de linguae usu atque abusu liber utilissimus.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1649.
(3) IDEM. Moriae encomium, cum Gerradi Listriis commentariis. Epistolae aliqut in fine additae. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1648.
(4) IDEM. Dialogus Ciceronianus: sive de optimo genere dicendi.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1643.
(5) IDEM. Dialogus de recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronuntiatione.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1643.
(6) IDEM. De contemptu mundi liber.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(7) IDEM. Querela pacis, undique gentium ejectae, profligataeque.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(8) IDEM. De immensa Dei misericordia.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(9) IDEM. Modus orandi Deum.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(10) IDEM. Precationes quibus homines assuescant cum Deo loqui.
Leiden, Joannes. Maire, 1641.
(11) IDEM. Enarratio in Psalmum I.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1644.
(12) IDEM. Enarratio triplex in Psalmum XXII.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1645.
(13) IDEM. Enarratio pia juxta ac docta in Psalmum XXXIV.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1652.
(14) IDEM. Concionalis interpretatio, plena pietatis, in Psalmum LXXXVI.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1652. 14 works in 2 volumes. 12mo. Ad 1 with an engraved title page by C. van Dalen showing Erasmus standing in a church with a book in his left hand pointing to three other men. All title pages contain Maire's woodcut device (see Breugelmans, nr. 13), and a woodcut portrait of Erasmus in a roundel on leaf *8r in ad 1 and his device in a roundel in the text on leaf 2*5v in ad 1. Further with several woodcut decorated initials throughout.
Contemporary half vellum, paper sides, with "Erasmiana tom. I [or II]" in manuscript on the spine, blue edges. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius and Arnold MONTANUS (editor). Colloquia. Nunc emendatiora. Cum annotationubus Arnoldi Montani.
Including: Coronis apologetica pro colloquiis Erasmi, ex ipsius scriptis, quantum per otium licuit, fideliter collecta à P.S. accedit ejusdem De Collequiorum utilitate dissertatio.
Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1658. 12mo. With an engraved title page, a full-page engraving showing Erasmus, woodcut decorated initials, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. 18th-century richly gold-tooled red morocco, both boards show a triple fillet frame with small cornerpieces in the inside corners and an oval armorial centrepiece (crowned fleur-de-lis flanked by two knights), gold-tooled spine with "Erasmus" lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [20], 820, 44 pp. Full description