May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 205

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Erasmus (d. 1536)
Scarabeus.

[Basel: Joannes Froben, 1517].

Quarto, issued as the second part of Erasmus's Sileni Alcibiadis and perhaps separately; Adams describes a copy identical to the present, consisting of signatures e through k only; both works were originally published as parts of the Adagia; disbound, some worming, printer's device to verso of last leaf, contemporary marginalia, some fore-edges folded to preserve marginal notes that would have been cropped by the binder, 8 x 6 in.

Adams E-830.