ERASMUS DESIDERIUS Parabolae 1545 De recta Latini Graeciqu

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ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. Parabolae. 168, [8] pages. bound after his: De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronunciatione . . . dialogus. Eiusdem dialogus, cui titulus Ciceronianus. 3-287, [1] pages; lacks the title. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 156x103 mm, worn provisional binding of sewn boards without backstrip; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, first leaf of De recta . . . pronunciatione reinforced with cloth tape in gutter slightly entering text on recto. Basel: Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1545; 1558

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Collection of metaphors and similes culled from classical authors, originally published as an appendix to the 1514 edition of Erasmus's rhetorical manual De duplici copia verborum ac rerum; bound with a later edition of his 1528 dialogues on Latin and Greek pronunciation and Latin style.