Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536).

10 volumes in 11, folio (394 x 243mm.), [6], (24), [64]pp., 1226col.; [12]pp., 1212col., [52]pp.; [30]pp., 1104col.; [4]pp., 1105-1944col., [184]pp.; [6]pp., 758col.; [6]pp., 1360col.; [56], 1126col., [17]pp.; [12]pp., 1198col.; [4], 652col.; [6], 1248col.; [4], 1249-1860col., [128]pp., title-pages printed in red and black, half-title in all volumes but one, illustration: engraved frontispiece, folding engraved portrait of Erasmus after Holbein, double-page engraved dedication plate, engraved vignette on title-pages, 24 engraved plates (a few folding), a few engraved illustrations in text, engraved head-pieces, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, binding: contemporary speckled calf, short tear in one plate, without half-title in volume 8, slight worming in lower margins at the end of volume 3 part 2, some leaves lightly browned or spotted, abrasions on covers

Vander Haeghen p. 133

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