Erasmus (Desiderius) Colloquiorum familiarium opus, Frankfurt, Heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1562.
Erasmus (Desiderius) Colloquiorum familiarium opus, collation: A-Z a-z Aa-Ll8, italic type, title with small circular woodcut portrait of Erasmus, woodcut decorative initials, final f. blank, early and later marginalia in a few hands, title small piece neatly cut from outer margin seemingly to remove a name, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary ornately blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, spine in compartments, upper cover with central portrait of Lady Justice, lower cover with central portrait of Lucretia (in Roman legend the wife of Collatinus, first Consul of Rome; she committed suicide in 509 BC), both enclosed by a roll featuring medallion portraits of ?church reformers, lacking clasps, head of spine and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (158 x 98mm.; binding 172 x 110mm.), Frankfurt, Heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1562. *** Scarce edition at auction.Provenance: Wildius of Jena (early ink inscription to lower margin of title); ‘Hoercher, 1735’ (ink inscription to title).
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Erasmus (Desiderius) Colloquiorum familiarium opus, collation: A-Z a-z Aa-Ll8, italic type, title with small circular woodcut portrait of Erasmus, woodcut decorative initials, final f. blank, early and later marginalia in a few hands, title small piece neatly cut from outer margin seemingly to remove a name, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary ornately blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, spine in compartments, upper cover with central portrait of Lady Justice, lower cover with central portrait of Lucretia (in Roman legend the wife of Collatinus, first Consul of Rome; she committed suicide in 509 BC), both enclosed by a roll featuring medallion portraits of ?church reformers, lacking clasps, head of spine and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (158 x 98mm.; binding 172 x 110mm.), Frankfurt, Heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1562. *** Scarce edition at auction.Provenance: Wildius of Jena (early ink inscription to lower margin of title); ‘Hoercher, 1735’ (ink inscription to title).
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