Live auction - Lot 1036
Colloquia familiaria, notis novis illustrata. Ad usum juventutis politioris humanitatis studiis imbuendae, apud omnes Protestantes, Britannos praesertim, & Hibernos [...].
Dublin, A. Rham for J. Churchill & E. Dobson, 1712
€ 450 / 600
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Lot description
12mo: [42]-663-[17] pp. (marg. toning).
Contemp. leather, spine with raised bands, red edges (rubbed, front cover loose). Good copy.
Very rare Dublin ed. of Erasmus’ "Colloquies" for the use in Protestant schools in England and Ireland. Engr. front.
Ref. Not in BB, Erasmus Online.
Joined, a Scottish and an American edition: 1. Colloquia selecta, or The select colloquies of Erasmus. With an English translation as literal as possible and a large vocabulary [...] by Robert Arrol [...]. Edinburgh, Fleming, 1750. 12mo (bl. lower part of final f. torn off). Contemp. leather (rubbed). Ed. by the 1st master of the Grammar School at Greenock (Inverclyde, Scotland). Ref. ESTC T183072. - Not in BB, Erasmus Online. - 2. Erasmi Colloquia selecta, or The select colloquies of Erasmus [...] designed for the use of beginners in the Latin tongue. The twentieth edition, by John Clarke [...]. Trenton (New Jersey), Oram, 1805. 8vo. Contemp. leather covered boards. Popular translation (1st Nottingham 1720). One of the earliest American editions of Erasmus. Ref. Not BB, Erasmus Online. (3 vol.)