ERASMUS DESIDERIUS Habes iterum Morias Encomiu[m] 1515 In

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ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. Habes iterum Morias Encomiu[m], pro castigatissima castigatius una cu[m] Listrii co[m]mentariis, & aliis complusculis libellis. [138] leaves * Institutio Principis Christiani saluberrimis referta praeceptis . . . cum aliis nonnullis eodem pertinentibus. [166] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one, both with woodcut borders and initials by Urs Graf, hand-tinted at an early date. 4to, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard, worn; marginal dampstaining and early marginalia throughout, repairs in blank upper corner of opening leaves in first volume. [Basel]: (Johannes Froben, 1515); Basel: (Johannes Froben, [April-]May 1516)

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Early edition of Erasmus's most famous work, the 1509 Morias Encomium, or Praise of Folly, "a bitter satire on monasticism and the corruptions of the Church [that] . . . helped to prepare the way for the Reformation" (ODCC). Bound after it is his treatise on the education of the Christian prince, which was first published in 1515. Adams E392, E380.