Religion & Devotion / Humanism & Reformation

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Eximii doctoris Hieronymi Stridonensis vita, ex ipsius potissimum literis contexta.
Basel, (Colophon) Johann Froben, May 1519. 4to. With a woodcut decorated frame on the title page and on page 3, a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern beige paper boards. 70, [2] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraclesis, id est, adhortatio ad sanctissimam ac saluberrimum Christianae philosophiae studium, ut videlicet evangelicis ac apostolicis literis legendis, si non sola, saltem prima cura tribuatur.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, February 1519. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border by Hans Holbein, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device on the last page. Modern marbled boards, red edges. 19, [1] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Sileni Alcibiadis. Cum scholiis in calce libri adiectis.
(Colophon:) Cologne, Servas Kruffter, May 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page, and a decorated woodcut initial. 19th-century marbled boards. [18] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Ad Reuerendissimu[m] Moguntinen[sium] praesulem: at[que] illustrissimu[m] principem, epistola, nonnihil D. Martini Lutheri negocium attingens.
[Augsburg, Sigmund Grimm and Marcus Wirsung], 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border by Hans Weiditz. 19th-century gold-tooled vellum. [4] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases in epistolas Pauli apostoli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas, quae co[m]mentarii vice esse possunt.
Basel, Hieronymus Froben, January 1520. Small 8vo (10.1 x 15.3 cm). With 5 woodcut frames (on the title page, and at the start of each text (Corinthians in two parts)), 10 woodcut decorated initials, 3 woodcut ornaments, and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device above the colophon on the last page. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, sewn on three supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, author and title lettered on a separated paper label at the head of the spine, and with remnants of four pairs of red closing ties. "465" [= 495], [1] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Epistolae ad diversos, & aliquot aliorum ad illum, per amicos eruditos, Ex ingentibus fasciculis schedarum collectae.
Basel, Johann Froben, 31 Aug. 1521. Folio. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page by Urs Graf, 2 decorative woodcut borders in the text by Ambrosius Holbein, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Modern blind-tooled red morocco. 12, "668" [=618], [6] pp Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum ...
Including: IDEM. Paraclesis, id est, adhortatio ad sanctissimum, ac saluberrimum Christianae philosophiae studium ...
[Paris], Gilles de Gourmont, [after 1518 (and before 1522?)]. 8vo (10.3x16.2). With both titles set within an identical woodcut architectural frame and several woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum. [106], [10] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius In evangelium Lucae paraphrasis Erasmi Roterodami nunc primum & nata & aedita.
Basel, Johann Froben, September 1523. Small 8vo (10.7 x 15.2 cm). With 2 small woodcut illustrations incorporating Frobens device on the title page and the verso of the final leaf, a woodcut headpiece above the dedication, and two woodcut decorated initials. Modern blind-tooled marbled calf. [275] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum... cui accessit noua, mireque utilis Praefatio.
Strassburg, (Colophon:) Johann Knobloch, April 1523.
With:
(2) IDEM. De immensa Dei misericordia ... Virginis et martyris comparatio per eundem. Nunc primum et condita et edita.
Including: IDEM. Virginis et martyris comparatio.
[Nürnberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].
(3) IDEM. De libero arbitrio diatribè, sive Collatio.
[Nürnberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].
(4) HENRY VIII, King of England. Assertio septem sacramentoru[m] aduersus Martin. Lutherum, aedita ab invictissimo Angliae & Franciae rege, & do. Hyberniae Henrico eius nominis octavo..
[Mainz, Johann Schöffer, 1522?]. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a woodcut frame on the title page, 1 woodcut decorated initial, and Knoblochs large woodcut device on the verso of the last blank leaf. Ads 2 and 3 with 1 woodcut decorated initial each. Ad 4 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 1 large woodcut decorated initial. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, remnants of brass anchor plates. 106; [57], [1 blank]; [49], [1 blank] ll.;158 pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. De libero arbitrio diatribè, sive collatio.
Basel, Johann Froben, September 1524. Small 8vo (ca. 10 x 16 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial, and Frobens woodcut printers device on the title page and final page. Modern vellum. [48] ll. Full description