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Title: L'Eloge de la Folie. Composé en Forme de Déclamation, par Erasme, et traduit par Mr. Gueudeville. Avec les Notes de Gerard Listre, et les Belles Figures de Holbein.
Description: A Amsterdam: Chez François L'Honoré, 1731. 0. Hardcover. 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. Good.

Keywords: Erasmus, Holbein

Price: US$ 450.00 Seller: Sam Gatteño Books
- Book number: 1430

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