Erasmo da Rotterdam - Des Erasmi Roterodami, de formis oratoriarum argumentationem libellum - 1537

Modern binding made from ancient parchment from a choral page with modern leather closures at the covers.

1 blank check, 40, 1 blank check

Educational treatise on the various forms of rhetorical argumentation used in speeches, especially according to the classical tradition.

Beautiful typographic edition with a turtle on the frontispiece, some finely silographed initials in the text. The copy is in excellent conservation condition, with a microscopic termite hole in the center of the last two pages. Usable and complete.

Extremely rare, never auctioned before.