Religion & Devotion / Humanism & Reformation

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Lingua ... Opus novum, & hisce temporibus aptissimum.
(Colophon) Basel, Johann Froben, August 1525.
With:
(2) IDEM. Christiani Matrimonii institutio ... opus nunc primum & natum, & excusum.
Basel, (colophon:) [Johann Froben], August 1526.
(3) CHRYSOSTOM, John and Desiderius ERASMUS (translator). Divi Ioannis Chrysostomi de orando deum, libri duo. Erasmo Rot. interprete. Adiuncti sunt ijdem Graece, ut lector conferre possit.
(Colophon:) Basel, Johann Froben, April 1525. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With Froben's woodcut device on the title page and final leaf of each work. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with the manuscript title of ad 1 on the fore-edge, remnants of fastenings.     [172]; [212]; [40] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Hyperaspistes diatribae adversus Servum Arbitrium Martini Lutheri ... ab autore recognitus.
Basel, Johann Froben, July 1526. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final leaf, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Modern calf. [120] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Opus epistolarum, per autorem diligenter recognitum, et adiectis innumeris novis, ferè ad trientem auctum.
Basel, (colophon:) Hieronymus Froben, Johann Herwagen, and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1529. Folio. With Froben's large woodcut device on the title page and repeated on the otherwise blank final page, and numerous woodcut initials. 17th-century sprinkled calf. [8], 1010, [1 blank], [1] pp. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Epistola ... contra quosdam, qui se falso iactant evangelicos, iam recens aedita.
(Colophon:) Freiburg im Breisgau, Johannes Faber, 1529. Small 8vo (9.5 x 13.9 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Fabers device on the final page. Modern, half vellum and brown sprinkled paper sides. [27] ll. 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. De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis, libellus et novus & elegans. & elegans ... Eiusdem de ratione instituendi discipulos. uterque per autorem recognitus, & locupletatus.
Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1536.
With:
(2) IDEM. Responsio ad Petri Cursii defensionem, nullo adversario bellacem.
Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1535.
(3) IDEM. Responsio ad epistolam paraenetica[m] clarissimi, doctissimicq[ue] viri... Alberti Pii carporum principis.
[Paris, Pierre Vidoux], April 1529.
(4) IDEM. Purgatio adversus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri.
Basel, (colophon:) Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, April 1534. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with Wechels woodcut device on the title page and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with Wechels woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the blank last leaf, and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Ad 3 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 4 with Frobens woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the last blank leaf. Half vellum and brown sprinkled paper sides, with the (faded) manuscript title on the spine, red edges. [50] ll.; 30, [1 blank], [1] pp.; [56]; [32] ll. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Ecclesiaastae [!] sive de ratione concionandi libri quatuor, opus recens, denuo ab autore recognitum, sed cum indice accuratiore quam antehac & copiosiore.
Antwerp, sub intersignio Rubri Castri (= Guilielmus Montanus), 1539. Small 8vo. With an architectural woodcut border on the title page, 7 decorated metalcut initials, 5 woodcut headpieces, 7 woodcut tailpieces, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. 18th-century half vellum. "549" [=544], [31], [1 blank] pp. 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. Vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis aequalibus fideliter descripta. Accedunt epistolae illustres ...
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1642.
With:
(2) IDEM. Lingua, sive, de linguae usu atque abusu liber utilissimus.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1649.
(3) IDEM. Moriae encomium, cum Gerradi Listriis commentariis. Epistolae aliqut in fine additae. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1648.
(4) IDEM. Dialogus Ciceronianus: sive de optimo genere dicendi.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1643.
(5) IDEM. Dialogus de recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronuntiatione.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1643.
(6) IDEM. De contemptu mundi liber.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(7) IDEM. Querela pacis, undique gentium ejectae, profligataeque.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(8) IDEM. De immensa Dei misericordia.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(9) IDEM. Modus orandi Deum.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1641.
(10) IDEM. Precationes quibus homines assuescant cum Deo loqui.
Leiden, Joannes. Maire, 1641.
(11) IDEM. Enarratio in Psalmum I.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1644.
(12) IDEM. Enarratio triplex in Psalmum XXII.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1645.
(13) IDEM. Enarratio pia juxta ac docta in Psalmum XXXIV.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1652.
(14) IDEM. Concionalis interpretatio, plena pietatis, in Psalmum LXXXVI.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1652. 14 works in 2 volumes. 12mo. Ad 1 with an engraved title page by C. van Dalen showing Erasmus standing in a church with a book in his left hand pointing to three other men. All title pages contain Maire's woodcut device (see Breugelmans, nr. 13), and a woodcut portrait of Erasmus in a roundel on leaf *8r in ad 1 and his device in a roundel in the text on leaf 2*5v in ad 1. Further with several woodcut decorated initials throughout.
Contemporary half vellum, paper sides, with "Erasmiana tom. I [or II]" in manuscript on the spine, blue edges. Full description

ERASMUS, Desiderius and Arnold MONTANUS (editor). Colloquia. Nunc emendatiora. Cum annotationubus Arnoldi Montani.
Including: Coronis apologetica pro colloquiis Erasmi, ex ipsius scriptis, quantum per otium licuit, fideliter collecta à P.S. accedit ejusdem De Collequiorum utilitate dissertatio.
Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1658. 12mo. With an engraved title page, a full-page engraving showing Erasmus, woodcut decorated initials, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. 18th-century richly gold-tooled red morocco, both boards show a triple fillet frame with small cornerpieces in the inside corners and an oval armorial centrepiece (crowned fleur-de-lis flanked by two knights), gold-tooled spine with "Erasmus" lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [20], 820, 44 pp. Full description