Literature & Linguistics

[EMBLEMATA & MONOGRAMS]. [Collection of emblematic and monogram plates from 4 series].
Nürnberg, Johann Christoph Weigel, [ca. 1726 (engraved ca. 1700 - ca. 1726)]. 16 x 11 cm. With 14 engraved plates (plate size 13 x 19 cm) bound as double-page plates. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. Full description

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

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Sileni Alcibiadis. Cum scholiis in calce libri adiectis.
(Colophon:) Cologne, Servas Kruffter, May 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page, and a decorated woodcut initial. 19th-century marbled boards. [18] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commentarii duo.
(Colophon): Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, August 1521.
With: (2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Parabolae sive similia.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johannes Froben, July 1521. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in woodcut architectural border with 3 coats of arms, the Isenburg(?) bars and Mainz wagon wheel above left and right, and Schoeffer's device at the foot under his IS-monogram; 6 large, beautiful woodcut initials. Both works set throughout in italic types. With 1 initial coloured by hand. Ad 2: with the title in an elaborate woodcut border, dated "MDXX" at the head, first page of the dedicatory letter by Erasmus to Petrus Aegidius on back of the title page with a border made of woodcut strips, Froben's large woodcut device on the last page, and 2 decorative woodcut initials. German contemporary blind-tooled calf sewn on 3 double cords, in a panel design. Titles in ink written on the spine (partly upside down) and the fore-edge; later paper spine label; 2 holes near the fore-edge of each board from fastenings now lost. [16], 247, [1 blank]; 191, [1] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronu[n]tiatione ... Dialogus. Eiusdem dialogus cui titulus, Ciceronianus, siue, de optimo genere dicendi. Cum alijs nonnullis, quorum nihil non est novum.
(Colophon:) Basel, Froben office, March 1528. 8vo. With 7 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 double supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a central panel on both boards with a repeating vegetal stamp, surrounded by a blank border and a vegetal border, the manuscript initials IWE on the front. 462, [2] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Omnia quam antehac emendatiora. Annotationes Des. Erasmi & Egnatij cognitu dignae: C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Dion Cassius, Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Aelius Lam-pridus, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, Flauius Vopiscus, Herodianus Politiano interprete, sex Aurelius Victor, Pomponius Laetus, Io. Baptista Egnatius Ammianus Marcellinus quatuor libris auctus. cum indicibus copiosis...
Basel, (colophon) Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, July 1533. 2 parts in 1 volume, Small folio (21.5 x 31.8cm). With Frobens large woodcut device on the title page, repeated on the final page and several large woodcut initials after Holbein. 17th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine. Both boards show two triple fillet frames, the smaller frame with four fleurs-de-lis cornerpieces on each outer corner, and within the smaller frame a centrepiece containing the monogram of the Collège (Royal) de Navarre in Paris. [44], 786, [2 blank], [84] pp. 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, LUCIAN of SAMOSATA, and Andreas van OOSTERBEECK (translator). Sommige uytgelesene colloquia, ofte tsamen-spreeckinghen Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, ende Luciani Samosatensis, niet min godsalich nut ende stichtelijck, dan tijdtcortich ende gheneuchelijck om lessen ... Beyde in de Neder-Duytsche sprake overgeset, door Andream van Oosterbeeck.
Utrecht, Jan Amelisz, 1613. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on the title page and the rare full-page engraved portrait of Erasmus (which is lacking in at least 2 of the 4 copies known) in an oval. On the verso of this portrait is a laudatory "Klanck-Ghedicht" (sonnet) for Erasmus, between typographical borders; the same borders on leaf. π2r: the privilege by the States General (verso blank). Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum. [18], 141, [3] ll. Full description

[EROTICA]. De belydenis van een lichtmis ...
[The Netherlands, ca. 1770]. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates. Contemporary red half roan, gold-tooled spine. [2], 184 pp. Full description