Lot n° 186
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ERASME. L'Éloge de la Folie, composé en forme de Declamation - Lot 186
ERASME. L'Éloge de la Folie, composé en forme de Declamation par Erasme de Rotterdam ; Avec quelques notes de Listrius, & les belles figures de HOLBENIUS ; le tout sur l'Original de l'Académie de Bâle. [...] Newly translated into French by Mr GUEUDEVILLE. Leide, Pierre Vander Aa, 1713.
In-12, marbled calf, spine with ornate nerves. [16] ff. 302 pp. Contemporary brown calf. very worn binding with missing leather.
First edition of Gueudeville's translation, decorated with a plate of portraits (Erasmus, More and Holbein), a frontispiece, a vignette with the arms of Jean de Bye at the head of the epistle, 73 (of 75) large figures in the text and 6 folded plates, all engraved in intaglio after Holbein.
Missing pp. 159-160 and last few pages of catalog. Small worm gallery in lower margin of several pages. One leaf torn but not missing. Missing half of a folding plate (torn).
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