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Shopping Cart £2,400 ($4,939.40) Change Currency Other Options Similar & Related De duplici copia, verborum ac rerum commentarii duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti, & emaculati, atque in plerisque locis aucti. Strassburg, Matthias Schürer, Oct. 1516. [Bound with]: HUTTEN (Ulrich von). [Greek title]: OUTIS. Nemo. Augsburg, in officina Millerana, 9 Sep. [1518]. [and]: BURLEY (Walter). Vita philosophorum et poetarum: cum auctoribus et sententiis aureis eorundem annexis. Strassburg, Joannes Knobloch, June (1516) CO18781 L'Eloge de la Folie, traduit du Latine d'Erasme, par M. Gueudeville. Nouvelle édition revue & corrigée sur le texte de l'édition de Bâle. N.p., n.p. (1757) CO11835

Lingua, opus novum, & hisce temporibus aptissimum. (Basle, apud Io. Frobenium, August

ERASMUS

Froben device on title-page and verso of final leaf.

8vo. [180]ff. Modern brown morocco. 1525)

Extremely rare first edition of Erasmus' hugely influential work on speech and language, popular in schools and much reprinted throughout the century. Vander Haeghen lists eight editions published before the end of 1526 alone.

Provenance. 6-line inscription on title of one "Godefridus" dated 1576. Early annotations and underlinings throughout.

Title and last leaf soiled, quire N damaged at blank upper margin with some loss, some marginal waterstaining.

Vander Haeghen p. 117. VD16 E3156. Not in Adams, BMSTC (German), OCLC/RLIN.