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Cologne: Joannes Gymnicus (Gymnich), 1532, 1533, 1532. Hardcover. Good. Woodcut pictorial titlepages with borders of female deities etc to each of 3 works + fine illustrated colophon to 2nd work. . Sammelband of 3 Works in one Volume. Small octavo pigskin on wooden boards, front cover with floral marginal rolls, central holy figures [SS Peter & John?] and ownership stamp SVM IACOBI BVECSEN MDXXXIII. Back cover with border of dancing figures, one dated 1528. Spine on 3 raised bands, brass clasps missing but catches present. Some damage to head & foot of spine, edges worn but stamped pigskin covers in excellent condition. Front & back endpapers present but pastedowns removed, showing at gutters vellum strips (with black & red MS lettering) used to attach wooden boards to spine. Work I [16]pp (woodcut emblematic bordered titlepage + Erasmus dedication to Beraldo dated Basel 8 June 1522 + Index) +385pp +[1]p blank, collated complete except Lacks one leaf of text at Fii (pp83-4). Titlepage has early ink… Read More

Coloniae: Heronem Alopeciu, 1522 An extremely scarce early edition published in September 1522 - a month after the authorised Basel edition - by Hero Alopecius in Cologne. We have only been able to find one reference to it (University of Toronto). Erasmus arranged publication of the Basel edition in August 1522, in response to the appearance of an unauthorised version in Cambridge in 1521. He had originally worked on the content in 1509-1511, and this work, developed from his earlier writing and lectures, became a popular and important text book on the writing of letters. It was much reprinted. This copy is newly rebound in full calf with panelled design to boards and gilt titles to spine. The page edges are red although this may not be contemporary. New endpapers. Contents with 2 initial blanks - the first with ink notation on the edition - this looks likely to be 1800's in date and the paper does not look contemporary. Title with elaborate design including 2 cherubs holding a shield with 3 crowns… Read More

Coloniae: Iohannem Gymnicum, 1529. Rare edition, a sound, complete copy, lacking only the final blank. Title within pictorial woodcut border. Octavo, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, dated 1534 in blind, brass clasps, minor statins and soiling and some early penned marginalia. Also bound in are three additional works, De Civilitate Morum Puerilium; Plutarch. De Liberis Educandis; and Horatius Flaccus.