History, Law & Philosophy / Philosophy & Humanism

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De libero arbitrio diatribè, sive collatio.
Basel, Johann Froben, September 1524. Small 8vo (ca. 10 x 16 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial, and Frobens woodcut printers device on the title page and final page. Modern vellum. [48] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Lingua ... Opus novum, & hisce temporibus aptissimum.
(Colophon) Basel, Johann Froben, August 1525.
With:
(2) IDEM. Christiani Matrimonii institutio ... opus nunc primum & natum, & excusum.
Basel, (colophon:) [Johann Froben], August 1526.
(3) CHRYSOSTOM, John and Desiderius ERASMUS (translator). Divi Ioannis Chrysostomi de orando deum, libri duo. Erasmo Rot. interprete. Adiuncti sunt ijdem Graece, ut lector conferre possit.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, April 1525. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With Froben's woodcut device on the title page and final leaf of each work. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with the manuscript title of ad 1 on the fore-edge, remnants of fastenings.     [172]; [212]; [40] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. 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. [120] ll. 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. Opus epistolarum, per autorem diligenter recognitum, et adiectis innumeris novis, ferè ad trientem auctum.
Basel, (colophon:) Hieronymus Froben, Johann Herwagen, and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1529. Folio. With Froben's large woodcut device on the title page and repeated on the otherwise blank final page, and numerous woodcut initials. 17th-century sprinkled calf. [8], 1010, [1 blank], [1] pp. 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. 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. 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) IDEM. Responsio ad Petri Cursii defensionem, nullo adversario bellacem.
Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1535.
(3) IDEM. Responsio ad epistolam paraenetica[m] clarissimi, doctissimicq[ue] viri... Alberti Pii carporum principis.
[Paris, Pierre Vidoux], April 1529.
(4) IDEM. 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 Wechels woodcut device on the title page and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with Wechels 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 Frobens 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. [50] ll.; 30, [1 blank], [1] pp.; [56]; [32] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. 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. "549" [=544], [31], [1 blank] pp. Full description