1731 ILLUSTRATED IN PRAISE of FOLLY by Erasmus of Rotterdam antique

Erasmus of Rotterdam, D.

L'eloge de la folie ... traduit par Gueudeville.
Nouv. Edit.


Amsterdam, FL'Honore; 1731


With engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette, 1 portrait engraving, 6 folded copperplate engravings and 75 text engravings.

11 leaves, 234 pp., 9 leaves.

Original leather binding with spine label and gilt edges (worn).

- Cohen-R. 348. Sander 613. -

Attractive Amsterdam edition with the engravings by W. Settler and the text engravings by P. Le Sueur after Holbein.

Good interior

Size 4 1/4 by 6 3/4"

Text in French
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In Praise of Folly (Latin: Moriae Encomium, 1511) by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam is a seminal Renaissance satire written for his friend Thomas More.
It features the goddess Folly praising herself, satirizing superstitious, corrupt, and academic practices of the 16th-century Catholic Church and society.
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