Erasmus Desiderius 1469 (7 results)

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided but with title page date and Preface date being the same year). vi, 406 pages. Hardcover. Half-leather binding - brown leather spine with five raised bands and brown marbled patterned boards with brown leather corners. Spine decorated with gilt stamped flowers in four compartments and title and author in remaining two. Scuffing to spine ends and band ridges; slender wear at board corners. All edges marbled although with top edge quite darkened. Marbled endpapers; relatively modern ownership label at front pastedown's top left; mot recent owner's (Mississippi State University professor E. Jerry Vardaman) personal bookplate affixed upon front free endpaper. Bookseller/binder pencil notes on ffep verso which also has circular winged horse logo ink stamp "Bound by Mudie" at bottom center; associated pencil notation on rfep recto as well; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Still a handsome book. OCLC cites "New edition" also issued in 1894 but with this copy not having such a statement and thus presumably preceding. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 2.75 pounds (1.25 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sm. octavo. 527 pp. Hardcover, bound in attractive contemporary blind embossed pigskin over boards. Lacking clasps. Front endpapers dampstained with modest, largely marginal staining over the preliminary and occasional leaves. Prior owner name on the fly leaf and early scattered marginalia. The Latin Biblical Paraphrase of the Gospel of Luke by Erasmus.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 8vo (165 x 104mm). [36], 621, [63] pages, including final leaf with printer's device of the word 'EPISCOP.' (Episcopus) separated by stork surmounting bishop's crozier on verso. Edited by Desiderius Erasmus; revised by Johann Jacob Grynaeus. Contemporary calf over wooden boards with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, brass catches, lacking clasps, rebacked, spine gilt labeled "IRENAEI HAERESES 1571"; (front joint cracked but cords intact; dark stain on opening leaves, paper cracks and small holes in title not affecting text, some light dampstaining in hinge toward end). 17th-century signature of 'Ro[bert] Baillie' to title, ("the famous Covenanter" according to pencil note on front endpaper). 19th-century 'Chiesa Libera' stamp on title; and pictorial bookplate of Douglas and Mildred Horton (dated 1962) to front pastedown. Reverend Dr. Douglas Horton married Mildred (née McAfee) in 1945 who was a prominent female captain in the United States Naval Reserve and later the president of Wellesley College. Irenaeus' theological treatise, written c. 180, attacked contemporary Christian heresies, particularly Gnosticism and the system devised by Valentinus (c. 100-c. 160). Irenaeus' treatise also supported the idea that bishop's maintained apostolic ties to the era of Christ and that a bishop was the best guide to understanding scripture. Given the very bishop-centric message of this work, perhaps it is not curious at all that the Episcopius press expressed interest in printing it (In Latin, Episcopus is bishop). It was not until the 16th century that Irenaeus' Opus eruditissimum was widely disseminated, first published in Latin by Froben of Basel in 1526 and in the original Greek in 1570. Erasmus famously edited this Latin edition, which appeared a year after the first Greek. In it, he removed two annotations, which referred to baptism and purgatory and also corrected a passage concerning the fault of Adam. The text itself is a new translation of the first book with an extensive dedication to the Basel Mayor Bernhard Brand and the founder of the Basel Reformed Orthodoxy Church, Johann Jacob Grynaeus. Irenaeus' Opus appears in 10 editions before this one, published in both Basel (1528, 1534, 1548, 1554, 1560) and Paris (1541, 1545, 1563, 1567, 1570). This volume once belonged to Robert Baillie (1602-1662), a Glaswegian and Presbyterian minister and writer, known for his Letters which faithfully recorded public events and his participation via correspondence. Baillie was a leader in the 17th century movement that rejected the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer. From a reformative point of view, Baillie would have found interest in Irenaeus' work, which recognized the canonical character of the gospels. For a work against the Gnostics it is said to contain, "valuable historical information and a great many New Testament quotations which are a witness to the New Testament text long prior to any extant manuscript; it is the first systematic exposition of Christian theology"--Sarton I, 294. Hoffmann II, 466.…

Condition: Good. 12mo. 6 x 12cm. [8], 589, [3]pp.Contempoarry calf, rebacked. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1048960644. Mnuscript notes on endpapers. Engraved title page.

Kupferstich v. Staub n. Holbein b. Gebr. Schumann, 1819, 9 x 7 (H).

Amsterdam, W, Janssonius, 1621, 508,(4) pag., engraved title with portrait of Erasmus standing, contemporary overlapping vellum with author and title in ink on spine, 24mo= Quite a rare edition, with only 2 copies listed in STCN (Nijmegen and Rotterdam). Coffin, Western Civilizations II, p.463. Erasmus's famous 'Colloquies' is a collection of humanistic dialogues on a wide variety of subjects, most of which explore man's reactions to other men through conversation. Erasmus, and his pupils, wrote on war, travel, religion, sleep, beggars, funerals, literature, and other topics. (Coffin) This work exposed some of Erasmus's humor through the invention of word games and rhetoric exercises used for education. It did so using everyday Latin dialogues to teach both language and moral values, making humanist ideas accessible to a wide audience. They also played a key role in spreading Renaissance humanism and subtly critiquing social and religious practices of the time. He wanted culture to serve as a model for those living during the Renaissance. Occasional small inkstains (all text well legible). …

Ø 65 mm, zilver, vz. In komvorm portret naar rechts / kz. Nar die de wereldbol omsluit met rondom op brede rand de tekst: Erasmus. = Erasmuspenning 1969, bij de 500e verjaardag van Erasmus, door Loekie (of Loukie) Metz, in de even prachtige als kostbare verzilverd bronzen variant van 65 mm. Hans de Koning, Penningcatalogus Loekie Metz, no.49: ERASMUS 1969, 25 en 65 mm, zilver en brons (LM en RKST). vz. In komvorm portret naar rechts / kz. Nar die de wereldbol omsluit met rondom op brede rand de tekst: Erasmus. "In 1969 was het vijfhonderd jaar geleden dat de grote Nederlandse humanist Desiderius Erasmus te Rotterdam werd geboren. Voor een groot publiek bleef hij voortleven door zijn satire op de menselijke dwaasheid: 'Laus Stultitiae' - De Lof der Zotheid -, waarvan al tijdens zijn leven 43 drukken verschenen. Op verschillende wijzen werd Erasmus in 1969 herdacht. In het kader van deze Erasmusherdenkingen verleende de Rotterdamse kunststichting opdracht een Erasmus-penning te ontwerpen aan de bekende beeldhouwster Louki Metz. De voorzijde van de (.) penning geeft, in een naar rechts gewend profiel, Erasmus treffend weer: met skeptisch opgetrokken wenkbrauwen, ingevallen wangen en dunne dichtgeknepen lippen, zoals wij hem kennen van portretten of uit sommige biografieën. De keerzijde heeft betrekking op 'de Lof der Zotheid' en toont, binnen het omschrift Erasmus, een nar, die de wereldbol omsluit." (bron: De Geuzenpenning, jrg. 23, no.1, 1973).Piet Esser - Tegen de golven in - IN: De Beeldenaar (1998, no.3, p.115ff): "Bij haar heb je altijd het gevoel dat zij ongecompliceerd, direct tot de aanval overgaat. Haar werk krijgt daardoor vaak iets overrompelends - en een heftigheid die je verbaast. (.) In haar beste penningen vloeien de erschillende vormdelen in een rijk spel van licht en donker in elkaar over. Ook al omdat ze van het begin af aan in brons denkt. Haar werk heeft dan ook vaak iets 'bloeiends'. (.) Holland is rijk aan goeie medailleurs. Maar haar penningen zitten boordevol met - Loekie Metz - en dat is heel wat! Je kan van haar penningen houden of niet - zelden zijn ze vervelend. Daarvoor zijn ze teveel geladen met spontaneïteit. (.) En nu lees ik op een doosje: Erasmus, 1969. Ja hoor dat is hem, en ik til hem in het licht. Wat een weelde aan hoge glanzen enWat een weelde aan hoge glanzen en fluwelen schaduwen. Alles bloeit aan deze penning als je hem langzaam wentelen laat. Deze is ook weer helemaal vorm geworden zonder enige vaagheid en heeft een fijnzinnige expressie vol levende intelligentie - de achterkant doet goed mee - en wat een plezierig gevoel om in de hand te houden.".…