Live auction - Lot 832
[Didactica]
Selecta colloquia [...].
Paris, Barbou, 1780
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Lot description
12mo: 152-[4] pp. (sl. browned, some edges frayed).
Contemp. vellum with French ms. text, flat spine (3 points of def. on covers).
Rather rare ed. of this anthology of Latin dialogues taken from Erasmus, Petrarch and Corderius, with, in addition, Erasmus’ treatise on good manners for schoolboys. One of the reprints of the 1770 Barbou ed. for French schools. Two-page stocklist at the end.
Ref. Cp. BB II:608-611:E-672-679. - Not in Erasmus Online, BnF.