Highlights

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronu[n]tiatione ... Dialogus. Eiusdem dialogus cui titulus, Ciceronianus, siue, de optimo genere dicendi. Cum alijs nonnullis, quorum nihil non est novum.
(Colophon:) Basel, Froben office, March 1528. 8vo. With 7 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device on the title page and last page. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 double supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a central panel on both boards with a repeating vegetal stamp, surrounded by a blank border and a vegetal border, the manuscript initials IWE on the front. 462, [2] pp. Full description

[ERASMUS, Desiderius]. Ursach, warumb Erasmus vo[n] Roterodam, in einer schrifft an den Bepstlichen Legaten und Cardinal Compeium, bedenckt, das es nicht gut sein sol das Rö. Key. Maiestat, die Lutherische, und andere lere mit dem schwerdt dempffe &c. In Sibenzehen Artickel gestellet.
[Strasbourg or Nuremberg, Georg Ulricher or Wolfgang Heußler, 1531 or 1546]. 4to. Modern blind-tooled, mottled calf, with a double fillet border on both boards. [3], [1 blank] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius Apophthegmatum opus cum primis frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso recognitum autore ... locupletatum insuper quum varijs per totum accessionibus, tum duobus libris in fine adiectis.
Basel, Froben Office (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius), 1532, Small fol (20 x 30.9 cm). With 9 decorated metalcut initials, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printers device on the title page and final page. 19th-century blind-tooled brown half morocco. [8], 401, [1], [14] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Omnia quam antehac emendatiora. Annotationes Des. Erasmi & Egnatij cognitu dignae: C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Dion Cassius, Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Aelius Lam-pridus, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, Flauius Vopiscus, Herodianus Politiano interprete, sex Aurelius Victor, Pomponius Laetus, Io. Baptista Egnatius Ammianus Marcellinus quatuor libris auctus. cum indicibus copiosis...
Basel, (colophon) Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, July 1533. 2 parts in 1 volume, Small folio (21.5 x 31.8cm). With Frobens large woodcut device on the title page, repeated on the final page and several large woodcut initials after Holbein. 17th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine. Both boards show two triple fillet frames, the smaller frame with four fleurs-de-lis cornerpieces on each outer corner, and within the smaller frame a centrepiece containing the monogram of the Collège (Royal) de Navarre in Paris. [44], 786, [2 blank], [84] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius and Zacharias HEYNS (translator). Belli detestatio. Ofte oorlogs vervloeckinge.
Zwolle, for Zacharias Heyns (colophon: printed by Frans Jorrijaensz), 1629. 4to. With a large engraved emblem on the title page, 5 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a woodcut tailpiece, and a tailpiece built up from typographical ornaments. 19th century half brown morocco. [28] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Explicatio in symbolum apostolorum, & decalogum.
Leiden, Joannes Maire 1641.
With:
(2) IDEM. Enchiridion militis Christiani.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(3) IDEM. Modus orandi Deum.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(4) IDEM. De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia, deque sedandis opinionum dissidiis, cum aliis nonnullis lectu dignis, liber. Ex editione Frobenianâ, anni MDXXXIII, cum gratiâ & privilegio Caesareo.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1642. 4 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With Maire's woodcut devices on all four title pages, several woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, blue edges. 264; 330 [2 blank]; 144; [1], [1 blank], [6], [4 blank], 176, [2 blank] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius, LUCIAN of SAMOSATA, and Andreas van OOSTERBEECK (translator). Sommige uytgelesene colloquia, ofte tsamen-spreeckinghen Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, ende Luciani Samosatensis, niet min godsalich nut ende stichtelijck, dan tijdtcortich ende gheneuchelijck om lessen ... Beyde in de Neder-Duytsche sprake overgeset, door Andream van Oosterbeeck.
Utrecht, Jan Amelisz, 1613. 4to. With a woodcut printers device on the title page and the rare full-page engraved portrait of Erasmus (which is lacking in at least 2 of the 4 copies known) in an oval. On the verso of this portrait is a laudatory "Klanck-Ghedicht" (sonnet) for Erasmus, between typographical borders; the same borders on leaf. π2r: the privilege by the States General (verso blank). Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum. [18], 141, [3] ll. Full description

EURIPIDES and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor and translator). Euripidis tragoediae duae hecuba & iphigenia in aulide, Latinae factae...
Basel, Froben Office [heirs of Johann Froben], April 1530. 8vo (10.4 x 15.4 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century half brown calf and grey paper sides. 293, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description

[FIRST EMPEROR of MEXICO - INSTATING AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE]. [Drop title:] El honor de la Capital del Imperio está comprometido en el decoro y magnificencia con que debe celebrar la Jura solemne ....
Sala Capitular del Ayuntamiento Constitucional de México [= City hall, Mexico City], 3 December 1822. Ca 20 x 15.5 cm. [4] pp. Full description

FONTANUS, Jacobus (Jacobus FONTEYN). De bello Rhodio, libri tres, Clementi VII Pont. Max. dedicati.
Hagenau, Johann Setzer, 1527. 4to (ca. 21 x 16 cm). The title is set within a woodcut border, the woodcut printer's device can be found beneath the colophon on the recto of the last leaf, and with some woodcut decorated initials. Modern gold- and blind-tooled calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the front board. [56] ll. Full description