L'Éloge de la folie, composé en forme de déclamation [...] et traduit par Mr. Gueudeville avec les notes de Gérard Listre, et les belles figures de Holbein: le tout sur l'original de l'Académie de Basle. Nouvelle édition, revue avec soin, & mise dans un meilleur ordre.

Sm. 8vo: [24]-234-[17]-[1 bl.] pp.; 1 front., 6 (of 7) pl. (without the pl. with portraits, foxing, some sm. marginal restorations).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt motto "MARCO ANTONIO / PETIT / ET AMICIS" in a large laurel crown, ribbed spine gilt, brown leather title-label, red sprinkled edges (us., rubbed, top turn-in lacking, joints partly split, stripped corners).

Translation by Nicolas Gueudeville (1st ed., Leiden, 1713) with notes by Gérard Listre (probably partly by Erasmus himself). The illustration includes 1 allegorical front. and 6 fold. plates, 1 vignette on the title by B. Picart and 75 half-page engr. figures in text. The illustrations, not signed, executed after pen drawings by Holbein in the margins of a copy of the "Éloge de la folie" now in the Museum of Basel. Ink and pencil notes on the endpapers. Ref. BB II-900/901:E 903. - Brunet II-1038. - Cohen 348 (reprint, 1731). Prov. Marc-Antoine Petit (1766-1811), famous Lyon surgeon and professor of surgery, co-founder of the "Hôtel-Dieu", president of the "Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon" (bookst. with motto in the style of Grolier). - Liégeard (ms. mention on the title-page). - Jean Nélis, lawyer (mod. engr. bookpl. "In librorum templo Ne-Lis"). - [Georges Petit].