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Thu, May 30, 2024 01:00PM EDT
Lot 385

IN FRENCH, L'ELOGE DE LA FOLIE ANCIENT WAS ILLUSTRATED BY ERASMUS IN 1777

Estimate: $880 - $1,000

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Year/Century: 18th century
Language: French
Subject: Illustrated
Binding: Leather
Description: Erasmus, "The Odyssey of the Follies," translated by M. Gueudeville, revised edition. review, expanded... Neuchatel, 1777 frontis., with six folded plates, numerals, and pictorial engraved and printed titles. textual examplesoriginal mottled calf, spine embellished with gold weathered spine, upper board detached, excellent interior, with pertinent annotations covering the front blank. with catalog excerpts put in. Written in French. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus, was a Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian who lived from 1466 to 1536. He is regarded as one of the most influential academics of the northern Renaissance. He was a well-known classical scholar who wrote in pure Latin while serving as a Catholic priest. He was referred to as "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists" and was known as the "Prince of the Humanists" by other humanists.

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