Erasmus, Hutten, Luther, Zwingli:
Erasmus, Desiderius (ca.1466-1536)
Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni.
[Cologne: ?Hero Fuchs, ?1523] $5,500
Octavo: An early, undated edition of Erasmus' brutal, shaming reply to Ulrich von Hutten's "Expostulatio cum Erasmo", Hutten's attack on Erasmus for his failure to support Luther and the cause of the reformation. Dedicated to Ulrich Zwingli. Recent vellum. >FULL DESCRIPTION< |
Erasmus' "Parabolae"
Erasmus, Desiderius (ca.1466-1536)
Parabolarum, siue Similium liber.
Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, July 1518 $3,800
Quarto: FOURTH EDITION. A very early edition of this collection of similitudes, comparisons, allusions, metaphors and allegories for scholarly use, drawn from Plutarch, Seneca, Aristotle, and Pliny the Elder. Marbled boards.
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Tyndale's English translation of Erasmus' "Enchiridion"
Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536); Tyndale, William (1494-1536)
Enchiridion militis Christiani, which may be called in English, the hansome weapon of a Christian knight: replenished with many goodly preceptes: made by the famous clerke Erasmus of Roterdame, and newly corrected and imprinted.
Imprinted at London: in Fleet-streete, by William How, for Abraham Veale, 1576
$25,000
Octavo: EIGHTH EDITION (first ed. 1533) of THE FIRST WORK BY ERASMUS TO BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. Transalted by William Tyndale, the translator of the English Bible. "In the 'Enchiridion'...>FULL DESCRIPTION< |
Erasmus' Adages
Erasmus, Desiderius (ca. 1466-1536)
Adagiorvm chiliades Des. Erasmi Roterodami qvatvor cvm sesqvicentvria.
Basileae: Froben & Episcopius, 1559 $2,000
Folio: Erasmus' "Adages" was first conceived as a collection of proverbial sayings drawn from the Latin authors of antiquity elucidated for the use of those who aspired to write an elegant Latin style. In its first incarnation, the "Adagia" consisted of about eight hundred proverbs. The present version, Erasmus' "Adagia Chiliades" is a vastly expanded version of that first effort. Contemporary alum-tawed pigskin, worn. >FULL DESCRIPTION< |
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The First Complete Edition of All of Euripides' Extant Tragedies - In Contemporary Pigskin
Euripides (484-406 B.C.)
ΤΡΑΓΩΙΔΙΑΙ ΟΚΤΩΚΑΙΔΕΚΑ: Tragoediae Octodecim. Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Andromache, Supplices, Iphigenia in Aulide, Iphigenia in Tauris, Rhesus, Troades, Bacchae, Cyclops, Heraclidae, Helena, Ion, Hercules Furens. [Elektra]
Basileae: per Ioannem Hervagium, Mense Septembri, 1551$7,500
Octavo: FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. The first edition to include the "Electra". Bound in a contemporary, signed and dated, German binding of alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards. The binding is ruled in blind...>FULL DESCRIPTION< |
Euripides (484-406 B.C.); Barnes, Joshua (1654-1712), editor
ΕΥΡΙΠΙΔΟΥ ΣΩΖΟΜΕΝΑ ΑΠΑΝΤΑ… Quæ Extant Omnia: Tragoediæ nempe XX.
Cambridge: Ex officinâ Johan. Hayes, 1694 $2,500
Folio: FIRST EDITION of Joshua Barnes' Euripides. "The merits of all preceding editions are eclipsed by this celebrated one of Joshua Barnes. Fabricius observes that 'the text is accurately revised and printed, the metrical rules of Canter diligently corrected, and the entire ancient scholia on the first seven plays subjoined and enriched by excerpta from a manuscript in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge."(Dibdin) 17th century English calf. >FULL DESCRIPTION< |
The First English Translation of Eusebius
Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea (ca. 260-ca. 340); Hanmer, Meredith, translator (1543-1604)
The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, written in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius.
Imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautroullier, 1585
$5,000
Folio: SECOND EDITION of this collection (first 1577). "Eusebius' work required the most comprehensive preparatory studies, and it must have occupied him for years. His collection of martyrdoms of the... >FULL DESCRIPTION< |
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