Erasmo da Rotterdam - Colloquia - 1658

Desid. Erasmus of Rotterdam Colloquia now more corrected. With annotations by Arnold Montanus. Published by Joannes Janssonius, 1658. Pages (22), 840, 44; size 13 × 7.5 cm. A beautiful, solid, compact copy. Contemporary binding in full leather; spine with five raised bands and rich gold tooling. A splendid and rare edition of Erasmus of Rotterdam’s famous manual with annotations by Eraldo Montano. They treat matters of erudition and morality. A not common edition in which the “colloquium” on the “exorcismus” is also included, not always present. Preceding the Colloquia are Erasmus’s prefatory letter to Froben in Basel, dated 1524, and the Life of Erasmus. Frontispiece engraved and a full-page portrait. Initials and woodcut tailpieces. Hand-drawn, in the first flyleaf a noble coat of arms."