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Comedy and commentary: Terence through the eyes of Donatus and Estienne

TERENTIUS AFER, Publius, Aelius DONATUS, and Desiderius ERASMUS. Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati co[m]mentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exe[n]plarium collatione, diligentius quàm unquam antehac, emendatae...
Paris, Robert Estienne, 5 April 1536. Small folio (20.2 x 30.3 cm). With Estiennes small woodcut device ona small woodcut the title page. Late 17th-century(?) calf. 378, [18] pp. Full description
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First edition of the Dutch translation one of the best known works of 'the Italian Erasmus'

VIRGILIUS, Polydorus. Waerachtige beschryvinghe. Inhoudende wie de eerste autheuren ende vinders aller verscheyden consten, inventien, ende hantwercken zijn gheweest ... uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederlantsche tale ... overgeset, door E.M.G.
Amsterdam, Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch, 1612. 8vo. With a printers device on the title page, 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled half mottled calf. [14], 327, [9] pp. Full description
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