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Basel: Froben, 1534.

Price: $1,750.00

About the item

Froben’s printer’s device on first and last leaf of each work. 415, [1]; 191, [1]pp. 8vo. Early half calf and pastepaper boards. Spine ends rubbed, front joint cracked but cords holding. Very good. VD16 E2515, E3257. Provenance: Princes of Liechtenstein (armorial bookplate); General Theological Seminary (bookplate).

Item #372192

Early Froben edition of a pedagogical work by Erasmus, “On the Writing of letters”, first published in 1522, with a collection of aphorisms or “Parallels” gathered out of Plutarch’s Moralia, Seneca, Lucian, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Pliny, and Theophrastus. An edition was published in Cologne in the same year, and the work was a standard throughout the sixteenth century.