Three very rare 16th-century Humanist school books
MACROPEDIUS, Georgius.
Adamus Macropedii fabula Christianae pietatis plaena ...
Utrecht, Herman van Borculo, 1552.
With:
(2) Sententiae singulis versibus contentae, ex diversorum poëtarum sententiis Graecis, Latinae redditae.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Johannes Loeus, 1544.
(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. [Drop title:] Christiani hominis institutum.
Including: ISOCRATES. [Drop title:] Ad demonicum paraenesis.
[Antwerp, Jan Verwithagen?, 1551?].3 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (13.5 x 9 cm). With a woodcut publisher's device on the title page, dated 1551 and including cupid with a crossbow, and a large woodcut device on the last page, showing Saint Christopher carrying a man with a wooden leg on his back and holding a small dog on a leash. All three works are set in Aldine-style italic types, the Erasmus also with a long passage in Greek. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, a double fillet border on both boards with small gold-tooled ornaments at the four corners, red edges. [68]; [12]; [12] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Utrecht, Herman van Borculo, 1552.
With:
(2) Sententiae singulis versibus contentae, ex diversorum poëtarum sententiis Graecis, Latinae redditae.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Johannes Loeus, 1544.
(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. [Drop title:] Christiani hominis institutum.
Including: ISOCRATES. [Drop title:] Ad demonicum paraenesis.
[Antwerp, Jan Verwithagen?, 1551?].3 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (13.5 x 9 cm). With a woodcut publisher's device on the title page, dated 1551 and including cupid with a crossbow, and a large woodcut device on the last page, showing Saint Christopher carrying a man with a wooden leg on his back and holding a small dog on a leash. All three works are set in Aldine-style italic types, the Erasmus also with a long passage in Greek. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, a double fillet border on both boards with small gold-tooled ornaments at the four corners, red edges. [68]; [12]; [12] ll. Full description
