Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. Moriae Encomium; or, A Panegyrick upon Folly. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Erasmus, 24 plates with 42 subjects, and 4 text illustrations, all by John Sturt after Hans Holbein. [24], xvi, viii, [12], 171 pages. 8vo, 197x116 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked; light offsetting from portrait onto title, contents otherwise generally clean. Bookplate of Nathan T. Porter, Jr., partly defaced. London: J. Woodward, 1709