Cerca libri

Epitome Adagiorum ex Novissima D. Erasmi Rot recognitione; per Eberha[rdum] Tappium ad numerum Chiliadum aucta, &,....

ERASMUS (Desiderius) · 1545 · Forest Books

£779.38 (€934.20 | $1,029.61 | ¥164,416)

Coloniæ: Martinus Gymnicus excudebat, 1545. 8vo, [16], 632, [78] pp., lprinter’s woodcut device on title showing a sea horse holding a mast on the top of which is perched a crane, and above the crane are the words “Discite Ivsticiam Moniti”, contemporary ink signature on fly-le…

Liber de sarcienda ecclesiae concordia deque sedandis opinionum dissidiis, cum aliis non nullis lectu dignis. Omnia recens nata, et nunc primum typis excusa.Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut illustration incorporating Hillen van Hoochstraten’s device on the last page, and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Modern boards covered with a leaf from a Latin incunable, probably part of a commentary on the Song of Solomon, red sprinkled edges.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1499 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,750.00 ($3,030.86 | £2,294.26 | ¥483,991)

[56] ll.First Antwerp edition, published in the same year as the first Froben edition in Basel of Erasmus’ De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia. Dedicated to Julius Pflug of Eytra (1499-1564), later the last Catholic Bishop of Naumburg, the work sets out Erasmus’ most urgent appeal …

De contemptu mu[n]di epistola.Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, 1523. 8vo. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Later vellum.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1488 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,776.65 | £10,428.48 | ¥2,199,958)

[32] ll.Very rare early edition of Erasmus’ first written work, a letter in praise of monastic life, which was only published later in his career. Erasmus wrote it in 1488 or 1489 when he was 20 years old, at the request of Theodoricus of Haarlem, a fellow canon at the Augustine…

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.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1485 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.12 | £7,091.36 | ¥1,495,972)

12, "668" [=618], [6] ppFirst complete edition of the letters of Desiderius Erasmus, containing 171 letters which had never been published before, with correspondence with many of the most prominent figures of the 16th century. The work has been beautifully illustrated with a sp…

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 Froben’s 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.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1478 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.46 | £2,919.97 | ¥615,988)

[44], 786, [2 blank], [84] pp.Beautifully bound copy of a collection of Roman imperial biographies, known as the Historia Augusta, which was supposedly written by 6 authors of the late Roman Empire: Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Vulcacius Gallicanus, Aelius Lampridius, …

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 Froben’s 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.

ERASMUS, Desiderius · 2017 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,250.00 ($2,479.80 | £1,877.13 | ¥395,993)

[275] ll.First edition of Erasmus’ Paraphrase on the gospel of Luke. Unlike his paraphrases on the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John, each dedicated to rulers of France or the Holy Roman Empire, this work was addressed to King Henry VIII of England. The lengthy dedicatory prefa…

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 Froben’s 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.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1517 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.59 | £3,754.25 | ¥791,985)

465 [= 495], [1] pp.First edition of Erasmus’ collected Paraphrases on the Pauline Epistles, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians and Galatians. Each paraphrase had appeared separately between 1517 and 1519, and this collected edition, printed at Basel, presented them together f…

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.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1515 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.46 | £2,919.97 | ¥615,988)

[18] ll.Rare, early edition of an influential work by Desiderius Erasmus, which is a call for reform of the Catholic Church. It uses the Ancient Greek figure Alcibiades (ca. 450-404 BC) and the mythical characters known as the Sileni as an allegory for looking beyond appearances…

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.

[ERASMUS, Desiderius]. · 1474 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,750.00 ($3,030.86 | £2,294.26 | ¥483,991)

[3], [1 blank] ll.Rare German edition of a letter Erasmus sent to the papal legate Lorenzo Campeggi (1474-1539) on August 18, 1530. In this letter, Erasmus expresses his fear that the Holy Roman Emperor would declare war to the Protestant German princes, and explains in 17 artic…

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 Froben’s device on the verso of the last leaf, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern beige paper boards.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1516 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.59 | £3,754.25 | ¥791,985)

70, [2] pp.Second edition of Erasmus’ Vita (The life of the excellent doctor Jerome of Stridon), this work introduced the monumental edition of Saint Jerome’s Opera omnia. It was Erasmus’ attempt to present Jerome as a relevant historical and intellectual figure, instead of him …

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 Froben’s device. 19th-century richly gold-tooled quarter red morocco.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1497 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,750.00 ($4,133.00 | £3,128.54 | ¥659,988)

194, [2] pp.An early edition of selected opuscula, short philosophical and moral treatises, by the Greek author Plutarch of Chaeronea (ca. 46-120 CE), best known for his Moralia and Parallel lives. The present work brings together Latin translations by multiple Renaissance schol…

Hyperaspistes diatribae adversus Servum Arbitrium Martini Lutheri ... ab autore recognitus.Basel, Johann Froben, July 1526. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final leaf, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Modern calf.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1520 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,500.00 ($6,061.73 | £4,588.53 | ¥967,982)

[120] ll.First revised edition of Erasmus' response to Martin Luther, which is part of their famous theological debate that took place in the 1520s. Erasmus received Luther's work in February 1526. The Hyperaspistes is his first reply to it, which he composed within a few days i…

Sileni Alcibiadis ... Cum Scholijs Ioannis Frobenij, pro graecarum uocum & quorundam locorum apertiori intelligentia ad calcem adiectis. (Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, April 1517. Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Scarabeus. Cum shcoliis[!], in quibus Graeca potissimum, quae passim inserta sunt, exponuntur. (Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, May 1517. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 4 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of each part. Late 19th-century or early 20th-century boards, red edges.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1515 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,000.00 ($4,408.53 | £3,337.11 | ¥703,987)

42 ll.First separate edition of an influential work by Desiderius Erasmus, which is a call for reform of the Catholic Church. It uses the Ancient Greek figure Alcibiades (ca. 450-404 BC) and the mythical characters known as the Sileni as an allegory for looking beyond appearance…

Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum ... Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. 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.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1501 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,950.00 ($4,353.42 | £3,295.40 | ¥695,187)

[106], [10] ll.Very rare Paris edition of Erasmus’ Enchiridion militis Christiani, including a short text urging readers to study Christian philosophy. Before Erasmus became a household name for his satire The Praise of Folly, or for his Latin translation of the New Testament, h…

Ecclesiaastae [!] sive de ratione concionandi libri quatuor, opus recens, denuo ab autore recognitum, sed cum indice accuratiore quam antehac & copiosiore.Antwerp, sub intersignio Rubri Castri (= Guilielmus Montanus), 1539. Small 8vo. With an architectural woodcut border on the title page, 7 decorated metalcut initials, 5 woodcut headpieces, 7 woodcut tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. 18th-century half vellum.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1682 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.33 | £2,085.69 | ¥439,992)

549 [=544], [31], [1 blank] pp.Scarce early edition of an influential manual on preaching. It was one of the last major works which Erasmus produced and is considered one of his most significant treatises on theology. The work was incredibly popular in his own time, as Erasmus h…

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.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1709 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,265.99 | £6,257.08 | ¥1,319,975)

XXIII, [1 blank] ll.Early edition of Erasmus’ seminal educational treatise De ratione studii, here presented alongside several other influential pedagogical and devotional texts. It further includes: Officium discipulorum ex Quintiliano (The duties of students according to Quint…

Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli, ad Timotheum duas, ad Titum unam, et ad Philemonem unam ... recens ab illo conscriptae, et nunc primum typis excusae... (Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.With: (2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios, Philippenses, et Colossenses, et in duas ad Thessalonicenses, cum epistola nuncupatoria ad ...(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, March 1520.(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Modus orandi deum.(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Johann Knobloch, March 1525.(4) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Consilium in caussa evangelica. [Leipzig, Michael Blum], 1526. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page of each work, a woodcut printer's device at the end of the first 2 works, 9 decorative woodcut borders in the text, 16 decorative woodcut initials, and 4 woodcut headpieces. Later blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, each board in a panel design with a lozenge-shaped ornament and cornerpieces in the central panel, surrounded by a decorative border, 2 metal clasps and catches, the manuscript title at the head edge, a blank paper label on the spine, and 4 pigskin tabs.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1516 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€14,000.00 ($15,429.85 | £11,679.89 | ¥2,463,953)

141, [3]; 167, [1]; [91], [1 blank]; [14], [2 blank] pp.Compilation of first or early editions of four of the most important religious works by Desiderius Erasmus, all printed during his lifetime. The texts, which were incredibly popular in his own time, were written to promote …

Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum... cui accessit noua, mireque utilis Praefatio.Strassburg, (Colophon:) Johann Knobloch, April 1523. With:(2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De immensa Dei misericordia ... Virginis et martyris comparatio per eundem. Nunc primum et condita et edita.Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Virginis et martyris comparatio.[Nürnberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De libero arbitrio diatribè, sive Collatio.[Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].(4) HENRY VIII, King of England. Assertio septem sacramentoru[m] aduersus Martin. Lutherum, aedita ab invictissimo Angliae & Franciae rege, & do. Hyberniae Henrico eius nominis octavo..[Mainz, Johann Schöffer, 1522?]. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a woodcut frame on the title page, 1 woodcut decorated initial, and Knobloch’s large woodcut device on the verso of the last blank leaf. Ads 2 and 3 with 1 woodcut decorated initial each. Ad 4 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 1 large woodcut decorated initial. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, remnants of brass anchor plates.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€18,000.00 ($19,838.38 | £15,017.00 | ¥3,167,940)

106; [57], [1 blank]; [49], [1 blank] ll.;158 pp.Four significant early 16th-century works that illuminate the intellectual and theological tensions of the Reformation. Ad 1: The Enchiridion militis christiani (“Poinard of the Christian Knight”), one of Erasmus’ most influential…

De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis, libellus et novus & elegans. & elegans ... Eiusdem de ratione instituendi discipulos. uterque per autorem recognitus, & locupletatus.Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1536. With:(2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Responsio ad Petri Cursii defensionem, nullo adversario bellacem.Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1535.(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Responsio ad epistolam paraenetica[m] clarissimi, doctissimicq[ue] viri... Alberti Pii carporum principis. [Paris, Pierre Vidoux], April 1529.(4) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Purgatio adversus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri.Basel, (colophon:) Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, April 1534. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with Wechel’s woodcut device on the title page and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with Wechel’s woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the blank last leaf, and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Ad 3 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 4 with Froben’s woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the last blank leaf. Half vellum and brown sprinkled paper sides, with the (faded) manuscript title on the spine, red edges.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1529 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.25 | £7,925.64 | ¥1,671,968)

[50] ll.; 30, [1 blank], [1] pp.; [56]; [32] ll.Together, these four works capture the remarkable breadth of Erasmus’s influence, from his visionary humanist pedagogy to his forceful engagement in the theological controversies of the Reformation. Brought together in this volume,…

Explicatio in symbolum apostolorum, & decalogum.Leiden, Joannes Maire 1641. With:(2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enchiridion militis Christiani.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Modus orandi Deum.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.(4) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia, deque sedandis opinionum dissidiis, cum aliis nonnullis lectu dignis, liber. Ex editione Frobenianâ, anni MDXXXIII, cum gratiâ & privilegio Caesareo.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1642. 4 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With Maire's woodcut devices on all four title pages, several woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, blue edges.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1641 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.66 | £1,042.85 | ¥219,996)

264; 330 [2 blank]; 144; [1], [1 blank], [6], [4 blank], 176, [2 blank] pp.Fine Sammelband with four theological works by Desiderius Erasmus, all published by the well-known Leiden printer Joannes Maire. The present work containing four 17th-century editions reflects the endurin…