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ARTCURIAL - Toulouse Jean Louis Vedovato - Me Jean-Louis Vedovato
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ERASMUS. *IN PRAISE OF FOOLISHNESS*, composed in the form of…
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ERASMUS. *IN PRAISE OF FOOLISHNESS*, composed in the form of…
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
ERASMUS. *IN PRAISE OF FOOLISHNESS*, composed in the form of a declamation by Erasmus, and translated by Mr Gueudeville. With notes by Gérard Listre, and fine illustrations by Holbein. All based on the original edition published by the Academy of Basel. Amsterdam, François L’Honoré, 1728. 12mo, fawn sheepskin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons, red leather title label, head and foot caps with gold filleting, edges speckled with red (later binding); frontispiece and illustrated title page, title printed in red and black adorned with a wood-engraved vignette, (12) ff., 340 pages, 7 plates separate from the text, (10) ff. of tables. Light foxing on the fold-out plates. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION of this work, reproducing the beautiful illustration from the 1713 edition. It contains a FRONTISPICE with portraits of Erasmus, Holbein and Thomas More, a TITLE PAGE illustrated with an allegorical engraving, 6 fold-out copperplate engravings and 75 half-page engravings within the text based on works by Hans HOLBEIN. A CHARMING COPY, preserved in a well-made pastiche binding. ¶ Cohen, 348, which describes only the 1731 edition by the same publisher.
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