Religion & Devotion

ERASMUS, Desiderius 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 Frobens 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. [275] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. 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. [32] 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. Epistola ... contra quosdam, qui se falso iactant evangelicos, iam recens aedita.
(Colophon:) Freiburg im Breisgau, Johannes Faber, 1529. Small 8vo (9.5 x 13.9 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Fabers device on the final page. Modern, half vellum and brown sprinkled paper sides. [27] ll. 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. 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 Hoochstratens 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. [56] ll. 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

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Explicatio in symbolum apostolorum, & decalogum.
Leiden, Joannes Maire 1641.
With:
(2) IDEM. Enchiridion militis Christiani.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(3) IDEM. Modus orandi Deum.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(4) IDEM. 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. 264; 330 [2 blank]; 144; [1], [1 blank], [6], [4 blank], 176, [2 blank] pp. Full description