Lot 1216
Live veiling
Adagiorum chiliades quatuor cum sesquicenturia [...].
ERASMUS, Desiderius
€ 400 / 600
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Lot description
Paris, P. Chevillot for M. Sonnius, 1579
Folio: 88 pp., 1376 col., 1-[1 bl.] pp. (normal toning, some local spotting, occ. tiny wormtrack in lower margin).
Old calf (tears), covers with gilt central ornament, gilt spine with 6 raised bands. Good copy.
Paris ed., with exquisite notes of H. Estienne. Indexes and additional proverbs from i.a. Hadrianus Junius and Gilbertus Cognatus. Sofar the best edition of Erasmus' Adagia. Woodcut mark on title in old colours.
Ref. Erasmus Online 159. - BB II:313:E-126. - Adams E-461. - Pettegree (FB) 69800. - STC French (BL) 153.
Prov. "Ex libris Sacerdotum Calvariae" (ownership entry on title).