1547. ERASMUS DESIDERIUS, Lingua (...): cui Libellum Plutarchi Chaeronei de immodica verecundia propter argumenti similitudinem adiunximus.

8. ERASMUS DESIDERIUS, Lingua (...): cui Libellum Plutarchi Chaeronei de immodica verecundia propter argumenti similitudinem adiunximus.

Basel 1547, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopus, 415 pp. +1 k.

A unique Basel edition from the famous outhouse of Hieronymus Froben of a treatise by Erasmus of Rotterdam based on Plutarch of Cheronea. It deals with rhetoric, language, the exercise of speech, but also ethical issues. Note: The work, first published in 1525, contains a several-page dedication by Erasmus from that very year to Krzysztof Szydłowiecki (1467-1532). The Polish magnate, great chancellor, castellan and voivode of Cracow was one of the main authors of Polish foreign policy during the reign of Sigismund the Old, including co-author of the Vienna treaty of 1515 and the Treaty of Cracow of 1525. The work is beautifully illustrated with woodcuts with the publisher's mark on the title page and the last page, as well as Renaissance initials. Rare!

Contemporary binding imitating Renaissance binding, full brown leather with 4 bindings on spine and embossing on covers in db condition, with only minor rubbing on corners; interior condition db, stains in places, but dry and traces of professional restorations in margins, e.g. title page; numerous annotations in margins towards the end; overall condition db.