Lot 524
Erasmus, Desiderius
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
£900
Description
In Novum Testamentum annotations, ex postrema ipsius authoris recognita. Basle: [in fine: per Hieronymum Frobenium & Nicolaum Episcopium,1555. Folio, Froben's device on the titlepage and on the verso of the last leaf, historiated initials, contemporary roll-tooled pigskin with initials M.B.M.L. & dated 1594, with arms of the Holy Roman Empire, rubbed, corners worn, titlepage a little dusty, gauffered in blind
Footnote
Note: Adams E896
Provenance: Inscription from George Clarke MD to Lord Charles Harvey, March 13, 1845.