Erasmus Desidarius (15 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Xxiv, 503 pp. Table of correspondents; works cited, short-title forms; index, coinages of Henry VIIIC. Map, b/w illustrations. Large octavo. Cream dust jacket with bronze medallion has minor shelf wear. Book itself is clean, tight and unmarked. A very nice copy. Covers ".Erasmus' controversies with a variety of critics and opponents. The publication in March of the dialogue Ciceronianus, for example, provoked a huge uproar in France because it included an ironic jest that was considered insulting to the great French humanist Guillaume Bude. More serious were the continuing efforts of conservative Catholics in France (Noël Béda) , Italy (Alberto Pio) , and Spain (members of the religious orders) to prove not only that Erasmus was a secret Lutheran but also that humanist scholarship was the source of the Lutheran heresy. In response to these charges Erasmus wrote letters and books in which he vigorously defended his orthodoxy and assiduously cultivated the support of his many admirers among the princes and prelates of Europe. The letters also record Erasmus' growing anxiety over the progress of the Reformation in Basel, which would cause him to leave the city in 1529; his diligent attention to his financial affairs, which had improved in recent years thanks to the assistance of the Antwerp banker, Erasmus Schets"; Collected Works of Erasmus; Vol. 14; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 503 pages.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. Facsimile volume. Limited to 750 copies; this is No. 117. Grey boards. Exquisitely illustrated with Holbein's drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. 2 volumes. I: [viii], 374pp.; II: 448pp. Volume II is issued in two parts, paged continuously. Pages 251-252 mis-bound in volume I, before page 247. Contemporary calf, worn. Corners worn, labels chipped. Volume II is slightly chipped at crown. Some cracking of front hinge. All edges marbled red. Volume I has frontispiece of Ulrich von Hutten and 11 other portrait engravings. Volume II has engraved frontispiece portrait of Erasmus. In total, there are 12 engravings. With ink and pencil notations on front endpaper of volume I, and top corner of frontispiece and title-page somewhat dampstained.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Small octavo. [xxii], 234, [xviii]pp. *6-**5, A8-P8, Q4, R2. Title-page in red-and-black. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With an engraved frontispiece, a portrait plate showing Erasmus, More, and Holbein, six folding plates and seventy-five textual engravings. These are the same copperplates as were used in the first "counterfeit" edition of 1713/1714. Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 170; Cohen-de Ricci 348; Kossman 1069; Van Der Haeghen I, 126; Sander 613.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Duodecimo. 528pp. A12-Y12. Printer's device on title-page. Contemporary calf, repaired. CLC E443.

Leather. Condition: GOOD. 8vo, 3.75 x 6', 784pp. Later mottled sheep with ornate floral spine panels and burgundy morocco title label half perished. Tips worn, joints rubbed and starting at tail ends but cords still intact, title page repaired and some lettering restored by hand; occasional pen markings in multiple early hands, one contemporary; with engraved portrait of Erasmus d. 1802 inlaid to flyleaf; owner's inscription 'Conrady . 1841' to FFEP.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Dutch thinker and theologian Desiderius Erasmus played a key role in the development of humanism during the Renaissance and early modern periods. In Against War, Erasmus mounts a stunningly lucid and detailed argument against armed combat on humanistic grounds.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Against War | Desidarius Erasmus | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023 | Dalcassian Publishing Company | EAN 9781088151969 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.