ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. L'Éloge de la Folie. French translation by Nicolas Gueudeville. Etched frontispiece...
ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. L'Éloge de la Folie. French translation by Nicolas Gueudeville. Etched frontispiece and 13 plates by various artists after Charles Eisen. [6] (of [8]), xxiv, 222, [2] pages; lacks half-title. 4to, 227x172 mm, contemporary black morocco attractively gilt; scattered minor spotting, few fingerprints, blank lower margin of plate 5 extended to size, gathering Y lightly toned. [Paris], 1751
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large-paper copy. Cohen-de Ricci 348-49; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 53.
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ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. L'Éloge de la Folie. French translation by Nicolas Gueudeville. Etched frontispiece and 13 plates by various artists after Charles Eisen. [6] (of [8]), xxiv, 222, [2] pages; lacks half-title. 4to, 227x172 mm, contemporary black morocco attractively gilt; scattered minor spotting, few fingerprints, blank lower margin of plate 5 extended to size, gathering Y lightly toned. [Paris], 1751
Estimate $800 - 1,200
large-paper copy. Cohen-de Ricci 348-49; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 53.
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