erasmus desiderius 1466 1536 (20 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: New. 1a.ed. en esta colección. 19x12 cm. Selección Clásicos Universales. 155 p., Rústica. Sprache: Spanisch, NUEVO / NEU / NEW. Enmascarado con un manto de ironía, Erasmo de Rotterdam construye una obra magistral que sigue iluminando a millones de lectores bastantes siglos después de su primera publicación. Bajo la apariencia de un juego satírico, se esconde una crítica velada donde no escapan monarcas, papas, la sociedad plebeya o los aristócratas. Con un modo discursivo, donde la propia estulticia es la que habla, se presenta a la locura y a la necedad como las fuentes de todo el bien del hombre, pues serían las que provocarían la felicidad, la bondad y el deleite. De forma sarcástica se nos dice que la razón no es quien dirige nuestras vidas, lo cual no deja de ser una burla más al ser humano y al uso que este hace de su inteligencia, así como una reprimenda directa a los últimos coletazos de las costumbres culturales del medievo más oscuro. Erasmo defendió los valores progresistas hasta sus últimos días. Humanista de corazón, fue uno de los más grandes intérpretes de las corrientes intelectuales del Renacimiento. [Texto editorial] [Erasmo+Erasmus+Erasmo de Rotterdam+filosofía+humanismo]. ** 10% DESCUENTO/RABATT/DISCOUNT PRIMAVERA * 8,10 (reduced from 9,00) **.

Stipple Engraving, C. Knight, 1833, a little spotting on surround,

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A splendid original antique engraved portrait . Mounted (matted) and ready to frame . Very good condition. Attrractive and decorative. Printed circa 1860.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual. C. 1800.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. Bataigne Ilustrador. A fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. Decorative and attractive.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original 1539 edition reprinted in facsimile. Original cloth. An ex-library copy with the usual markings, else Very Good+. The English Experience Number 124.

Paris, à l'enseigne du pot cassé - 1933/1934 - In-8 - broché - Couverture illustrée en couleusr Exemplaire numéroté sur bornéo - I) XXXIII-204pages - II) 284 - III) 286 pages - Dans chaque, illustrations en texte -Bel ensemble Il reste essentiellement connu aujourd'hui pour sa declamation satirique Éloge de la Folie (1511) et, dans une moindre mesure, pour ses Adages (1500), anthologie de plus de quatre mille citations grecques et latines, et pour ses Colloques (1522), recueil d'essais didactiques aux thèmes variés, bien que son uvre, autrement plus vaste et complexe, comprenne des essais et des traités sur un très grand nombre de sujets, sur les problèmes de son temps comme sur l'art, l'éducation, la religion, la guerre ou la philosophie, éclectisme propre aux préoccupations d'un auteur humaniste. Livres 114516989941).

Condición: Good. 12 mo. Contemporary calf with raised bands.260pp. 10 x 16.5 cm.Collational formula:a6 A-K12 L4Book label of Petitpas, Nantes. 12 engraved plates in the style of Eisen. ERASME L'éloge de la Folie, orné de 12 gravures dont le frontispice.Traduction du latin par Barrett. 1 vol. in-12 relié 1/2 veau blond glacé,dos à nerfs à caissons ornés, pièce de titre rouge, tranches jaspées. Bel ex.Réf : Brunet II - 1038 -Cohen 350 - Quérard III - 27 « La meilleure traduction française de cet ouvrage », Expertise by Yves Salmon, 56760 Pénestin, France.

Small 8vo. Pagination: 473, [23] pp. Signatures: a-z8, A-H8. PrinterâÂÂs device on the title page, woodcut initials, printed marginalia; editor's name on title and p. 2 are lined out in ink, three small worm holes from title-page. Nineteenth century quarter gilt-ruled calf, red paper board boards. Early ink name on title of "Carolus . . ." and occasional marginalia (pp. 58, 61, 62, 80-83 [heavy notes] - in the same hand. Very good. Beautifully printed early pocket edition printed by Sebastianus Gryphius (1493-1556), of Suetonius' most famous work and one of the few of his texts that survive, with excellent annotations by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, the work contains a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of the Roman Empire [Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian]. It is a primary source for the study of Roman history. The first edition of Suetonius with Erasmus' annotation was issued in 1533. Baudrier, Henri L., Bibliographie lyonnaise, VIII, p. 284; Gultlingen V, p. 215: I369; French Books III & IV: Books published in France before 1601 . . . edited by Andrew Pettegree, Malcolm Walsby, Leiden: Brill, 2012, 87100. Locations: BYU (lacks everything after p. 340 and title is damaged); NYPL.

Condición: Buono (Good). 8vo. 167, (9, including one blank) leaves. a-y8. Contempory limp vellum.Index Aureliensis, 163.213; VD 16, E-2959; I. Bezzel, Erasmusdrucke des 16 Jahrhunderts in Bayerischen Bibliotheken, (Stuttgart, 1979), 1045; H. Brunner, Dulce bellum inexpertis: Bilder des Krieges in der deutschen Literatur des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, (Wiesbaden, 2002), p. 485; F. van der Haegen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, I, (Gand, 1893), p. 101. ONLY EDITION of this selection of Erasmian letters published by the poet and historian Johannes Tethinger (fl. 1st half of the 16th century). It was intended for school boys as a manual of model letters. Probably Tethinger had in hands the similar volume published at Basel by Bartholomäus Westheimer in 1538.Both volumes open with Erasmus' letter to the Carthusian Gabriel Ofhusius, dated Anderlecht, October 14, [1520]. Some letters are omitted in one of the works, whereas there are a few additions in the other. Both works also contain answers to letters written by Erasmus. Whereas Westheimer's edition does not contain letters dated after 1529, Tethinger's selection has letters up to 1533 and furthermore some poetry: Hermann von dem Busche's poem In Erasmum Coloniam recens ingressum (1516), Heinrich Glareanus' elegy Ad Erasmum Roterdamum immortale Belgarum decus (1516), and by the same an elegy celebrating his friend Oswald Mykonius (1516).Very little is known about the life of Johann Tethinger. He probably took over the position as a rector of the grammar school in Freiburg a.Br. around 1518. He published some schoolbooks on Latin grammar, but his main work is Silva de quattuor bellis Wirtembergicis (1535), an epic on the wars of Ulrich, Duke of Wurttemberg. An enlarged edition with an added historical prose account was published in 1545 (cf. P.P. Albert, Zur Lebens- und Familiengeschichte des Dichters und Geschichtsschreibers Johann Tethinger Pedius, in: ?Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins?, 54, 1900, pp. 8-14). Gerrit Gerritszoon (better known as Desiderius Erasmus) was born at Rotterdam, apparently on October 28, 1466, the illegitimate son of a physician's daughter and a future monk. At Deventer he attended the local school run by the German humanist Alexander Hegius, learning Latin and Greek. On his parents' death he entered the Augustinian College of Stein near Gouda, where he spent six years. At length the Bishop of Cambrai, Henry of Bergen, made him his private secretary. In order to allow him to accept that post, he was given a temporary dispensation from his monastic vows, dispensation that later was made permanent by Pope Leo X.After taking priest's orders Erasmus went to Paris, where he studied at the Collège Montaigu. He resided there until 1498, gaining a livelihood by teaching. Among his pupils was Lord Mountjoy, on whose invitation probably Erasmus made his first visit to England in 1498. He lived chiefly at Oxford, making the acquaintance of John Colet and Thomas More.In 1500 he was again in France, living for the next six years mainly at Paris. During this period he wrote the Adagia (Paris, 1500) and the Enchiridion Militis Christiani (Antwerp, 1503). After a short visit to England, in 1506 Erasmus carried out a long-desired journey to Italy, staying chiefly at Padua as tutor to Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St. Andrews, and Venice, collaborating to the publishing house of Aldo Manuzio. His visit closed with a short stay in Rome.In 1509 the accession of Henry VIII and the invitation of Lord Mountjoy induced Erasmus once more to settle in England. In this period he wrote the famous Encomium Moriae (first published at Strasbourg or Paris in 1511) and resided mainly at Cambridge, where he was appointed Margaret professor of Divinity and professor of Greek.After 1514 he lived alternatively in Basel and England, and from 1517 to 1521 at Louvain. In 1516 at Basel appeared the first edition of the Colloquia, usually regarded as his masterpiece, and the first edition of. Book.

Condición: Buono (Good). 8vo. (16), 477 [i.e. 479], (1) pp. ?8, a-z8, A-G8. With the printer's device on the verso of the last leaf. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, one clasp.Index Aureliensis, 162.936; VD 16, E-2955; I. Bezzel, Erasmusdrucke des 16 Jahrhunderts in Bayerischen Bibliotheken, (Stuttgart, 1979), 1037; F. van der Haegen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, I, (Gand, 1893), p. 101. FIRST EDITION of this selection of Erasmus' letters made from his Opus epistolarum of the same year. The whole volume was intended for school boys as a manual of model letters. The volume opens with the announcement of Erasmus' death and a short biography of the latter by Beatus Rhenanus, and also contains some laudatory verses on Erasmus by Henricus Glareanus and Johannes Sapidus, and an epitaphium by Andrea Alciati. Westheimer reprinted the volume in 1551. The present edition was possibly, although there is no direct evidence, also edited by Johannes Gast (d. 1552), who in 1546 published Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami epistolae familiares in tres centurias divisae.?Il a une haute idée de la lettre considerée comme un genre littéraire qui ?peint les moeurs, le destin, les sentiments, les conditions de la vie publique et de la vie privée' tout en maintenenant le ton de la conversation: colloquium inter absentes. Ses préférences vont à la simplicité, au style naturel et familier, à tout ce qui s'écarte résolument des expressions conventionelles, artificielles et impersonnelles. Sans doute, Erasme lui-même n'a-t-il pas toujours suivis ces sages recommandations? Il n'en reste pas moins qu'il n'aurait pu écrire un tel traité épistolaire s'il n'avait été d'abord un gran épistolier. Ajoutons pour mémoire, qu'Erasme n'a pas publié lui-même un recueil de ses plus belles lettres familières. Le volume intitulé Desiderii Erasmi Roterdami epistolae familiares est une édition posthume, chez B. Westhemerus à Bâle en 1538? (L.-E. Halkin, Erasmus ex Erasmo. Erasme éditeur de sa correspondence, Aubel, 1983, pp. 127-128).Bartholomaeus Westheimer (1499-1567/68) was born at Pforzheim and educated in the Latin school of Johann Sapidus at Schlettstadt. Around 1525 he lived in Rastatt and came into contact with the circle of Reformed theologians like Johannes Brenz and Dietrich von Gemmingen. A year later he settled in Basle as a proofreader, became a citizen and married a former nun. In Basel he issued his first theological works being printed by Thomas Wolff, whose printing shop he eventually took over in 1536. During some of his business trips, he met in Strasbourg the theologian Konrad Hubert with whom he remained in correspondence over a longer period. In 1546 he ceased his activities as a printer and became pastor of Therwil (near Basel) and in 1547 of Mulhouse. In 1551 he returned to Basel and his name is found in the university register. In 1553 he was called as a preacher to Horbourg (near Colmar). With a short stay in Montbéliard (Burgundy) he returned permanently to Horbough.As a printer he published over one hundred works: classical authors, theological and philological treatises as well as medical tracts, mostly in Latin. As theologian (he had converted from Calvinism to Lutheranism in his later years), he tried to show, combining humanism, biblical studies, and the Church Fathers, that the Reformation is indeed a return to the spirit of the early Church. If he ever had contacts with Erasmus is not known, but it is very probable (cf. H. Rissel, Dem Buch und der Kanzel gedient: Bartholomäus Westheimer aus Pforzheim, 1499?-1567, in: ?Neue Beiträge zur Pforzheimer Stadtgeschichte?, Ch. Groh, ed., Stuttgart, 2006, pp. 13-24). Gerrit Gerritszoon (better known as Desiderius Erasmus) was born at Rotterdam, apparently on October 28, 1466, the illegitimate son of a physician's daughter and a future monk. At Deventer he attended the local school run by the German humanist Alexander Hegius, learning Latin and Greek. On his parents' death he entered the Augustinian C. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Bound in contemporary reversed-deerskin (with minor stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the margins, a few trivial marginal stains, final leaf with light crease, light soiling to t.p. and final leaf. Provenance: 17th c. inscription on t.p. "Monasterii S. Albani Congregationis S. Mauri 1699." 16th c. ownership inscription (struck through) on pastedown. Second Froben edition, printed within 6 months of the first, of a book begun by Erasmus when he was a young humanist monk in his twenties and completed twenty-five years later, by which time he had become a figure of international renown and controversy. As originally conceived in the 1490s, Erasmus' "Antibarbarians" was to be a spirited defense of humanism, in particular the reading and study of classical literature and languages, against charges that such literature and pursuits are fundamentally un-Christian. In its final form, as published in 1520, the book was also a defense of Erasmus' theological positions, his views on church reform, and his application of humanist principles and philological methods to the study of religious texts, in particular Holy Scripture. Erasmus conceived his "Antibarbarians" at about the age of twenty, while living as a monk at the monastery at Steyn. By the time the book was published, Erasmus was under attack from many quarters, especially from the monastic orders, whose members resented Erasmus' criticisms of their abuses and accused Erasmus of heresy and Lutheranism. The threat to humanistic studies that Erasmus had perceived in the 1490s was still alive and well but had taken on new dimensions and implications. The Louvain theological faculty had condemned Erasmus' Greek New Testament, the preeminent expression of Erasmian humanism, and had also attacked Erasmus for his part in the so-called Reuchlin affair, "long regarded as the first formal confrontation of the new scripture-based reform with the scholastic defenders of the theological faculties and the Vulgate."(Levy, p. 177) Forced to defend himself on these fronts and to clarify his positions, Erasmus used the "Antibarbarians" as a vehicle to stage his defense and to launch new attacks on his enemies. The Genesis and Development of the Work: "Erasmus arrived in Paris in 1495 and soon after his arrival submitted the first book of his 'Antibarbari' to the historian Robert Gaguin. In 1499 Erasmus went to England and it was probably then that he showed the drafts of Books I and II to John Colet. During the penurious years in Paris that followed, he apparently went on with it during the time he could spare from his teaching. He took it with him to Italy in 1506, and revised Books I and II at Bologna. But when in 1509 he received an urgent invitation to come to England and share in the golden age that was opening with the reign of Henry VIII, he left Italy in a hurry and consigned his papers to the care of an English friend, Richard Pace, at Ferrara. Soon Pace had to leave too and the papers went to another Englishman, less conscientious, who sold what he could and gave the rest away. "Erasmus asked over and over again for the return of his brainchild. But he never saw most of it again. He got hold of Book I when he was in Louvain many years later, revised it again, and sent it to Froben, who published it in 1520. The reason given for this was that Erasmus had found the manuscript circulating from hand to hand, and he was conscious of its juvenile mistakes; the only way to deal with this was to produce a new and revised edition. A year or two later he had the beginning of Book II sent from England and found the end of the same book at Bruges. But nothing more ever emerged, and he never fulfilled his intention of rewriting it."(Margaret Mann Phillips, 'The Antibarbarians', in The Collected Works of Erasmus, Toronto, Volume 23) The Printed Version: "The work is a spirited defense of the study of the classics, in the form of a dialogue between Erasmus and his friends: William Hermans, a monk like himself from the monastery at Steyn; an energetic character named Jacob Batt, town clerk of Bergen; the burgomaster of Bergen, Willem Conrad; and the town doctor Jodocus. They meet and talk, and their conversation develops into a debate on the reasons for the stiff resistance they find among the traditionalists to the introduction of classical studies. "Three of the interlocutors are young enthusiasts, considered by the older generation as revolutionary and subversive because they want to substitute the 'abominable monsters of paganism' (Horace, Vergil, and Ovid) for the accepted reading of the schools. The two others are in agreement with the younger men, and together they discuss the motives for this resistance and for the decline of true learning. "The doctor says it is because of the stars (he is addicted to astrology); the burgomaster says it is because of Christianity; Willem Hermans says it is the result of the ageing of the world. Batt, however, puts it all down to the terrible teachers who reign undisputed in the field of education. The others beg him to make this clear, and he explains himself in a long speech, punctuated by a few remarks from his hearers. He sketches the battlefield, divides the enemy into three camps the ignorant, the narrow-minded, and those who wish to use learning for their own ends- and starts an eloquent attack on the first group, who know nothing about the classics and therefore regard them as harmful ('Beware, he's a poet, he's no Christian!') or who take their stand on apostolic simplicity. "Eventually the burgomaster's wife sends a servant from their country house nearby to say that dinner is spoiling, and they decide to adjourn and take up the discussion in the afternoon. That afternoon, for us, has not arri.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled. The contents are in very good condition with a few pencil annotations and light soiling to the title page. With Badius' device of his print shop, the "Praelum Ascensianum" showing printers working a press, on the title page. With large, attractive crible initials, and smaller, charming historiated initials. Passages in Greek. A fine, unsophisticated copy of this rare edition. From the personal library of Bob and Emily De Graaf. The rare 1524 Parisian "Praise of Folly", printed by Erasmus' friend, the scholar-printer Badius Ascensius, who printed the first authorized edition in 1512. This edition contains all of the supplementary texts found in the Froben edition of 1519 (see the note "additional Moria texts" below), including the dedicatory letter to Thomas More and the letter to Martin Dorp in which Erasmus explains his motives for writing the "Moria": "My aim in the 'Folly' was exactly the same as in my other works. Only the presentation was different. In the 'Enchiridion' I simply outlined the pattern of a Christian life. In my little book, the 'Education of a Christian Prince', I offered plain advice on how to instruct a prince. In my 'Panegyric' I did the same under the veil of eulogy as I had done elsewhere explicitly. And in the 'Folly' I expressed the same ideas as in the 'Enchiridion', but in the form of a joke." "The 'Praise of Folly' is Erasmus' most famous and controversial work In Erasmus' lifetime, the 'Moria' was condemned in 1527 by the theologians of Paris for its attacks on faith and morality and again in 1533 by the Franciscans, who found it full of heresies. The officials of the Sorbonne put it on the list of condemned books in 1542 and 1543, a list that was the basis of the Tridentine Index of 1564 "The 'Moria' may start as a learned joke to amuse a fellow humanist [Thomas More] but it moves into sharp criticism of contemporary mores, and ends with a plea for a return to the Christianity of the Gospels Erasmus writes in a Lucianic spirit of irreverent burlesque of the gods of classical mythology and light-hearted amusement at the irrationality of mankind. Folly argues that she is all that is natural, youthful, fecund, and happy, and that life would be intolerable if it were not ruled by civilized conventions, which necessitate a degree of humbug and illusion. By contrast, the Stoic ideal, rational man is a 'kind of marble statue of a man, devoid of sense and any sort of human feeling.' She [then] shifts her viewpoint and lists the people who enjoy her benefits insofar as they try to preserve their illusions or are happy in their ignorance, self-deception, or self-love. She even adds superstitious piety to alchemy, gambling, and the nobility's obsession with hunting and extravagant building "[Next] Erasmus starts to deliver a sharp and often bitter attack on all the victims of blind folly, those who are deaf to the voice of true religion and lacking the gentler Christian virtues, among whom are sycophants, self-seekers, money-makers, pedants, scholastics, lawyers, theologians, superstitious worshippers of images and relics, courtiers and kings, worldly monks, and irreligious pontiffs. This section culminates in a savage thrust at Pope Julius II, the bellicose pope. The keen wit and ingenuity of the satire can be highly entertaining, but there is no note of gaiety now. As Erasmus surveys the gulf between the Church and the 'true philosophy of Christ' he moves into the final section, where the alternative offered to barren scholasticism is the vision of reality taken from Plato, and folly in the sense used by Saint Paul, that of receptivity to the Christian message by the 'fool in Christ.' All irony is dropped, until the final short epilogue when Folly light-heartedly cuts short her 'hotch-potch of words'; this is a direct and simply worded account of Erasmus' personal belief, moving into an exposition of the Neoplatonist concept that the soul's ascent to beatitude ends in ecstasy, a form of folly which is its supreme fulfillment."(Betty Radice, Collected Works of Erasmus, Vol. 27, pp. 78 ff.) Additional Moria Texts: In addition to Erasmus' main text, this edition includes two ancient examples of the mock-encomium, Seneca's "Ludus de Morte Claudii Caesaris" and Synesius of Cyrene's "De Laudibus Calvitii" ("In Praise of Baldness"), translated from the Greek by the Englishman John Phreas (d. 1465). In his introductory letter to Thomas More, Erasmus cites both the "Ludus" and the "Praise of Baldness" in a pre-emptive defense against those who will object to his literary frivolity, "levitas et ludicrum argumenti" (pp. 102-104 in this edition). The text of the "Moria" is accompanied by the commentary of Gerard Listrius, with assistance from Erasmus. THE 1524 BADIUS ASCENSIUS EDITION. Written in 1509 as a visitor's gift to Thomas More, whose name -Morus- was so aptly similar to the Greek "moros," folly, the "Moriae Encomium" was first printed by Gilles de Gourmont at Paris, probably in 1511.

Four parts in one volume, 8° (168x114 mm). Collation: a-z8, aa-mm8; nn-tt8; A-L8, M10; N-Q8, R10. 473 of [474] leaves, lacking the last blank leaf. Roman and italic type. Each title within a fine woodcut border; the first, second and third border also including Froben's printer's device. Woodcut section borders on fols. a6v, l7r, t7v, dd7v, gg7r, ii6r, ll3v, nn5r, ss3v, tt5r, and A5r. Larger printer's devices on fols. mm8v, M10v, and R9v, with some variants. Numerous woodcut animated initials in different sizes, mostly on black ground, the initial on fol. a2r on ten line, with the inscription 'DIOGENES. ARISTIPPVS'; woodcut headpieces. Contemporary wallet-style German binding, blind tooled pigskin over pasteboards, the lower cover overlapping the upper one. Covers within border of fillets and foliate roll, central spaces filled with floral and foliate tools. Spine with three raised bands, underlined by multiple fillets. Compartments decorated with floral motifs, trace of early inked title on the first one. Head-edge darkened. Metal attachments missing, a small hole to the upper cover. A very fine copy, with strong impression of the woodcut borders. A few paper flaws, loss to the blank outer lower corner of fol. nn1, not affecting the woodcut border. A few contemporary marginalia, and reading marks. Pencilled bibliographical notes on the recto of the front flyleaf; on the front pastedown, the inked note '88-76-5'.Provenance: John Jermain Slocum, the famous Joyce collector, and Joyce co-bibliographer (1914-1997; pencilled note on the recto of the front flyleaf, 'Ex Coll. John Slocum'); Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1975 (ex-libris on the front pastedown; see The Collection of Arthur e Charlotte Vershbow, Christie's New York, 9-10 April 2013, lot 170). A fine copy – from the celebrated library of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow – of the first edition of this important work by Erasmus, rarely found complete with all four parts and presented here in its original, well-preserved wallet-style binding. The first part of the Froben edition contains Erasmus' paraphrases of the Romans, Corinthians, and Galatians; the second part covers those of Timothy, Jude, James and John; and the third part is devoted to the canonical letters of Peter, Jude, James and John. This Basel edition also contains, as a fourth and final part, the paraphrases of the letters to the Hebrews (In epistolam Pauli apostoli ad Hebraeos paraphrasis per Erasmum Roterodamum extrema), which is not mentioned on the title-page nor in the list of contents. The text of this section was printed on five quires added during the printing, and owing to this circumstance complete copies with all four parts very rarely appear on the market. The present edition is also praised for the fine title borders and initials, some of them – like that on fol. b5r – were cut by Johann Faber after drawings by the renowned artist Hans Holbein the Younger, who often worked for Froben. The border on fol. A1 is instead signed by Ursus Graf, with his monogram 'VG'. A further point of great interest in this copy is its blind-tooled pigskin binding, a handsome example of wallet-style binding, in which the lower cover extends along its length, folding over the fore-edge. This sort of binding was adopted to protect precious manuscripts against the possibility of getting damaged, and it was also used in intensively-used volumes such as account books, textbooks, prayer books, archival documents, and more generally for volumes intended to be carried around by their owners, merchants, school masters, or – as the content of Erasmus' volume suggests – preachers. Few of these bindings have survived.Adams E-793; VD16 E-3375; STC German 115; Heckethorn, The Printers of Basle, 170; Bezzel 1526; Bibliotheca Erasmiana Bruxellensis, 325; F. Hieronymus, Basler Buchillustration 1500 bis 1545, Basel 1984, no. 374; C. Müller, Hans Holbein d. J. Die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett, Basel 1997, no. 24; Philobiblon, One Thousand Years of Bibliophily, no. 71. Book.

[3] - 22, 1 - 630, [76] pp. Indices at rear, T.p. printer device. Woodcut initial letters. Tailpieces. 12mo. *12 [- *1, *12] A - 2F12 2G6 [last leaf a blank]. 15 cm x 9.5 cm. Overall VG (unobtrusive vellum repair at head of spine). Period vellum with maroon leather spine label Editio Nova, à multis quibus antea scatebat mendis, diligenter repurgata.

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Basel gedruckt mit Haasischen Schriften bei Johann Jacob Thurneysen, Jünger. M. DCC. LXXX (MDCCLXXX / 1780). Pappband der Zeit, [13 unpaginierte Blatt], 396 Seiten, 8° (20 cm). EA / erste Ausgabe (1918 erschien bei Georg Müller eine Faksimile-Ausgabe in der berühmten Reihe "Die Bücher der Abtei Thelem"). Frontispiz gestochen von Samuel Gränicher, die Holzschnitte im Text sind von Heinrich Heitz. Druck in FRAKTUR (gebrochenen Lettern; "altdeutsch") auf Hadernpapier. Zeitgenössischer Einband mit Kleisterpapierbezug und zurückhaltender Rückenornamentierung und gedrucktem Rückenetikett (rot). Einband mit kleinen Gebrauchsspuren und leicht nachgedunkelt, beide Außenfalzen, beide Kapitale sowie die Kanten ein wenig berieben, Ecken leicht verbogen, Papier ohne Bräunungsspuren, Buchblock sauber (also ohne Unterstreichungen & Randglossen). Gleichwohl insgesamt sehr schönes Exemplar. Mit Rundum-Farbschnitt. [SW: Philosophie] [INTERNER HINWEIS - STANDORT halbhohes weißes Regal].

Condición: Very Good. Copperplate illustrated titlepage engraved by P.P. Octavo contemporary full vellum (washed), more recent neat MS spine label, All Edges Rouge. Engraved illustrated TP +[12]pp prelims (dedication by Erasmus to Froben dated Basel 1524, undated autobiographic "Vita Erasmi", and epitaph dated 1536) +784pp +[20]pp Index. Text in Latin. Titlepage lightly browned at edges, small ink spot and number 49 written at foot, neat underlining in faded brown ink on most pages up to p454, else crisp and clean throughout. *One of 2 editions by Hackius in same year, this notable for last page of "Vita Erasmi" with 27 lines. Referenced by Graesse II.495, Van der Haeghen I, 40. Bibl. Erasmiana, Colloquia, 416. *Collection of dialogues (colloquia) written by Erasmus, edited by Dutchman Cornelis Schrevel (1608-1661) who added footnotes by various authors and the index. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Condición: Buono (Good). 8vo. 130 leaves. A-P8, Q10. Title within a woodcut border. Old vellum. Adams E-558; Index Aureliensis, 152.590; C. Coppens, Erasmiana Lovaniensia: catalogus van de Erasmus-tentoonstelling in de Centrale Bibliotheek te Leuven, november-december 1986, (Louvain, 1986), p. 117, no. 39; F. van der Haegen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, I, (Gand, 1893), p. 100; Ph. Renouard, Bibliographie des Éditions de Simon de Colines, 1520-1546, (Paris, 1894), no. 177.   THIS unauthorized selection of 227 letters from the correspondence of Erasmus first came out from the presses of Simon de Colines on April 22, 1523. The letters were extracted from two earlier volumes of Erasmus' correspondence: Farrago nova epistolarum (1519) and Epistolae ad diversos (Basel, 1521). The work was propably intended as illustration of Erasmus manuals of letter writing: ?Toutes ces éditions ont un caractère commun: elles sont subreptices. Érasme ne les a pas reconnues. Il aurait jamais accepté la publication, dans ces nouveaux recueils, de la lettre à Pierre Paludanus, qu'il considérait comme une impudente forgerie. En outre, les imprimeurs parisiens Colines et Grosmors seront vigoureusement dénoncés par Érasme pour leurs éditions non autorisées de ses oeuvres? (L.-E. Halkin, Erasmus ex Erasmo: Erasme éditeur de sa correspondence, Aubel, 1983, pp. 133-135; see also A. Vanautgaerden, Anatomie des vanités: Erasme et ses imprimeurs, Bruxelles, 2008, pp. 3-5). ?Le caractère scolaire de ces petits livres ne saurait faire de doute. Comme l'annoncent leurs titres, il s'agit de lettres relativement courtes, d'où leur nombre important (227 ou 225) pour des volumes assez minces (111 à 143 feuillets in 8); la plus longue est la lettre à Spalatin du 7 août 1519 qui occupe un peu plus de quatre pages; la plupart sont extrèmement courtes. La rhétorique de la Renaissance est regardée le plus souvent comme un art du développement; il est rassurant de voir prônes ici le raccourci élégant, la formule rapide et brillante, la litote; et quel meilleur maître pouvait-on trouver qu'Erasme en ce domaine? Le mépris de toute chronologie est commun à ces recueils et à la Farrago aussi bien qu'aux Epistolae ad diversos; il témoigne du dédain de tout intérêt historique. Aussi bien n'est-ce pas la teneur des lettres qui compte, mais leur style. Pour la même raison sans doute - ou peut-être aussi en hommage au grand homme -, seule les lettres d'Erasme ont été retenues, et l'on ne trouve pas ici les réponses des correspondants; l'unique exception est constituée par l'échange de très courts billets entre Erasme et Fausto Andrelini où, pour garder au bref dialogue sa saveur, on a cité les réponses d'Andrelini. Ansi les recueils parisiens rendent-ils hommage à la limpidité légère et acérée du style érasmien? (M.M. de la Garanderie, Recueils parisiens de lettres d'Erasme, in: ?Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance?, 31/3, 1969, p. 455-456).   Gerrit Gerritszoon (better known as Desiderius Erasmus) was born at Rotterdam, apparently on October 28, 1466, the illegitimate son of a physician's daughter and a future monk. At Deventer he attended the local school run by the German humanist Alexander Hegius, learning Latin and Greek. On his parents' death he entered the Augustinian College of Stein near Gouda, where he spent six years. At length the Bishop of Cambrai, Henry of Bergen, made him his private secretary. In order to allow him to accept that post, he was given a temporary dispensation from his monastic vows, dispensation that later was made permanent by Pope Leo X. After taking priest's orders Erasmus went to Paris, where he studied at the Collège Montaigu. He resided there until 1498, gaining a livelihood by teaching. Among his pupils was Lord Mountjoy, on whose invitation probably Erasmus made his first visit to England in 1498. He lived chiefly at Oxford, making the acquaintance of John Colet and Thomas More. In 1500 he was again in France, living for the next six years mainly at Paris. During this period he wrote the Adagia (Paris, 1500) and the Enchiridion Militis Christiani (Antwerp, 1503). After a short visit to England, in 1506 Erasmus carried out a long-desired journey to Italy, staying chiefly at Padua as tutor to Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St. Andrews, and Venice, collaborating to the publishing house of Aldo Manuzio. His visit closed with a short stay in Rome. In 1509 the accession of Henry VIII and the invitation of Lord Mountjoy induced Erasmus once more to settle in England. In this period he wrote the famous Encomium Moriae (first published at Strasbourg or Paris in 1511) and resided mainly at Cambridge, where he was appointed Margaret professor of Divinity and professor of Greek. After 1514 he lived alternatively in Basel and England, and from 1517 to 1521 at Louvain. In 1516 at Basel appeared the first edition of the Colloquia, usually regarded as his masterpiece, and the first edition of his annotated New Testament. After the explosion of Lutheran revolution, he found himself in the most embarrassing position, assailed on the one side by the Catholic who considered him as the cause of all the new troubles, and criticized on the other side by the Lutherans who accused him for his cowardice and inconsistency in refusing to follow up his opinions to their legitimate conclusions. In 1521 he left Louvain, where the champions of the old faith had made his stay unendurable and, with the exception of six years in Freiburg, he spent the rest of his life at Basel. In those years he continued publishing a long succession of classical and patristic writers, as well as new augmented and corrected editions of his main works, especially the Adagia, the Colloquia and his epistolary. At the same time he was engaged in continual controversies, on the one side with Protestants thinkers like Ulrich von Hutten and Martin Luther, with whom he exchanged a series of pamphlets about the free will (starting with Erasmus' De Libero Arbitrio, Antwerp, 1524), on the o.

Ad I: Amsterdam, Jacobus Verheyde, 1732, (14),160 pag., gegraveerde titel naar F. Lansvelt, 6 platen; Ad II. Amsterdam, Jan van Heekeren, 1719, 96 pag., (afwijkende) gegraveerde titel naar F. Lansvelt, contemporain perkament, klein octavo.