ERASMUS, Desiderius; [Petrus SCRIVERIUS]. Colloquia.
ERASMUS, Desiderius; [Petrus SCRIVERIUS].
Colloquia, nunc emendatiora [&] Coronis Apologetica pro Colloquiis Erasmi, Ex Ipsius scriptis, quantum per otium licuit, fieliter collecta a P.S., Accedit eiusdem de Colloquiorum Utilate Dissertatio.
Lugdunum Batavorum [Lieden]: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1636.
Duodecimo (14 x 8cm); contemporary tied vellum binding, titles in ink to spine; outer edge speckled; pp. [i, engraved title], [xxi], 672, [ii], 3-44, [iv]; a little splaying (caused by splitting to two of the eight external ties), and darkening to boards, compressed at corners, else a lovely binding containing a text block which is for the most part clean and bright; the ffep chipped at extremities; some light finger marks, and some delicate hand-colouring to small portions of the title and vignettes to pp. xx; a lovely copy.
First Elzevir Edition of this compendium of highlights from the great Humanist scholar Erasmus, published here, for the first time, in a celebrated small pocket format.
ERASMUS, Desiderius; [Petrus SCRIVERIUS].
Colloquia, nunc emendatiora [&] Coronis Apologetica pro Colloquiis Erasmi, Ex Ipsius scriptis, quantum per otium licuit, fieliter collecta a P.S., Accedit eiusdem de Colloquiorum Utilate Dissertatio.
Lugdunum Batavorum [Lieden]: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1636.
Duodecimo (14 x 8cm); contemporary tied vellum binding, titles in ink to spine; outer edge speckled; pp. [i, engraved title], [xxi], 672, [ii], 3-44, [iv]; a little splaying (caused by splitting to two of the eight external ties), and darkening to boards, compressed at corners, else a lovely binding containing a text block which is for the most part clean and bright; the ffep chipped at extremities; some light finger marks, and some delicate hand-colouring to small portions of the title and vignettes to pp. xx; a lovely copy.
First Elzevir Edition of this compendium of highlights from the great Humanist scholar Erasmus, published here, for the first time, in a celebrated small pocket format.
ERASMUS, Desiderius; [Petrus SCRIVERIUS].
Colloquia, nunc emendatiora [&] Coronis Apologetica pro Colloquiis Erasmi, Ex Ipsius scriptis, quantum per otium licuit, fieliter collecta a P.S., Accedit eiusdem de Colloquiorum Utilate Dissertatio.
Lugdunum Batavorum [Lieden]: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1636.
Duodecimo (14 x 8cm); contemporary tied vellum binding, titles in ink to spine; outer edge speckled; pp. [i, engraved title], [xxi], 672, [ii], 3-44, [iv]; a little splaying (caused by splitting to two of the eight external ties), and darkening to boards, compressed at corners, else a lovely binding containing a text block which is for the most part clean and bright; the ffep chipped at extremities; some light finger marks, and some delicate hand-colouring to small portions of the title and vignettes to pp. xx; a lovely copy.
First Elzevir Edition of this compendium of highlights from the great Humanist scholar Erasmus, published here, for the first time, in a celebrated small pocket format.