Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2621BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 18, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Erasmus, Desiderius (d. 1536) L'Eloge de la Folie. Amsterdam: Honore, 1731.
Octavo, title page printed in red and black, full-page engraving with portraits of Erasmus, Thomas More, and Holbein; and seventy-five text illustrations and six folding plates after Holbein; in full contemporary parchment over stiff boards with original marbled pastedowns, a.e.g., owner's initials tooled in gilt on front board, contents somewhat spotted.
Estimate $200-300
Collated, complete.