ERASMUS

"12mo, 381-[2 bl., 1] pp. General title within ruled border. Vertical half-title on last p. (toned, marginal dampstaining). Old binding (heavily worn, front cover loose). Very rare Oxford ed. of The Praise of Folly, with 4 items of LEUVEN interest: the dedication by G. Listrius to rector Paludanus; Erasmus' famous letter of May 1515 to Martinus Dorpius (Allen 337; pp. 238-270); Erasmus' letter (Leuven, November 1520) to Thomas More (Allen 1162; pp. 271-279); Thomas More's manifesto of Christian humanism in the form of a letter (from Bruges, October 1515) to Dorpius (Rogers 15; pp. 280-334). At the end is added Erasmus' ""Purgatio adversus Epistolam non sobriam Martini Lut[h]eri"" (1534), with a title-page dated '1669'. Ref. Bibl. Belg. II:887 E-883 (not stating '1669') ; ESTC R15566 (not stating '1669') ; Wing E-3207 ; Madan (Oxford) III:2799 ; Not in Erasmus Online. We add: ERASMUS - All the familiar colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, concerning men, manners, and things, translated into English by N. Bailey. London, for J. Darby [etc.], 1725. 8vo, [6], 5-16, 288, 305-608, [4] pp. ("" The text is continuous despite the pagination"" [ESTC]; fore-edge margin occasionally frayed or cut short). Contemp. panelled calf (rubbed, rebacked). First ed. of the translation by the lexicographer Nathan Bailey (d. 1742), including ""The life of Erasmus"""