Live auction - Lot 892

Ecclesiastae sive De ratione concionandi libri quatuor.

ERASMUS, Desiderius

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Lot description

Antwerp, Guilielmus Montanus, 1539

8vo: 549 (= 544)-[32] pp. (age-toned, bottom margin stained).

Old blindstamped calf (rebacked, skilfully repaired). Good copy.

Very rare Antwerp ed. of Erasmus' long treatise on the art of preaching, 1st publ. Basel 1535. Title within woodcut border. Woodcut mark at the end. ref. NKr 2923 (in Belgium only copies in KB & Ghent). - Index Aur. 162.977. - Cat. Rotterdam 94. - De Reuck 179. - Machiels E-405. - Not in Bezzel, STC Dutch (BL), BnF. Prov. Old ownership entries i.a. "Johannis puce pbri Sancti Jacobi lexouie".