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ERASMUS Lectures and Wayfaring Sketches

By: Allen, P. S.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford At the Clarendon Press: 1934

Seller ID: 29500

ISBN: 0802051251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Endpapers a bit browned. Former owner's name on ffep. ; 216 pages
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SYNODIA Studia Humanitatis Antonio Garzya Septuagenario Ab Amicis Atque Discipulis Dicata

By: Criscuolo, Ugo & Riccardo Maisano (Eds. )

Price: $285.00 USD

Publisher: M. D'Auria: 1997

Seller ID: 4308

ISBN: 8870921344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. ; Studi in onore di Antonio Garzya. A cura di U. Criscuolo e R. Maisano, promossi da Fabrizio Conca, Ugo Criscuolo, Herbert Hunger, Jean Irigoin, Italo Lana, Riccardo Maisano e Gianni Macchiavelli. ; Collectanea; 1041 pages
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ERASMUS VON ROTTERDAM: AUSGEWHLTE SCHRIFTEN. ZWEITER BAND II: Morias egkomion sive Laus Stultitiae; Camina selecta Auswahl aus den gedichten

By: Erasmus Von Rotterdam; Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Alfred Hartmann; Werner Welzig (Hg. )

Price: $37.00 USD

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 1975

Seller ID: 26777

ISBN: 3534059433

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Some rubbing to spine label else book is fine. ; Xxxix, 361 pp ; Vol. 2; 361 pages
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OPERA OMNIA DESIDERII ERASMI ROTERODAMI: VOLUME IX-4 Recognita Et Adnotatione Critica Instructa Notisque Illustrata. ORDINIS NONI, TOMUS QUARTUS

By: Erasmus, Desiderius

Price: $120.00 USD

Publisher: Elsevier Science & North-Holland: 2003

Seller ID: 2678

ISBN: 0444510559

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Contents: Apologia Qua Respondet Duabus Invectivis Edvardi Lei (ed. Erika Rummel) ; Responsio ad Annotationes Edvardi Lei (ed. Erika Rummel) ; Manifesta mendacia (Rummel) ; Responsio ad disputationem cuiusdam phimostomi de divortio (ed. Edwin Rabbie). ; Erasmi Opera Omnia; 1.34 x 10.16 x 6.61 Inche; 424 pages; Hardbound.
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COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS: APOPHTHEGMATA [2 VOLUME SET] Translated and Annotated

By: Erasmus, Desiderius & Elaine Fantham & Betty I. Knott (Ed. )

Price: $195.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division: 2014

Seller ID: 26890

ISBN: 1442641665

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear to books with faint bump to 1 corner of each volume. DJs have minor shelfwear. ; This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus' skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs. Four are short rhetorical pieces; the next group illustrates facets of Erasmus' classical scholarship and includes several works that bear witness to Erasmus' friendship with Thomas More. The last and most expansive piece in the volume, the Lingua, has not previously been translated into English. ...
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ERASMUS AND CAMBRIDGE The Cambridge Letters of Erasmus. Introduction, Commentary, and Notes.

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; D. F. S. Thomson & H. C. Porter

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1963

Seller ID: 29499

ISBN: 0802051251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Gift inscription from Thomson in Latin to front inner cover. Chipping and tears to DJ. ; 243 pages; Signed by Translator
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COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS: LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL WRITINGS 7 De Virtute / Oratio Funebris / Encomium Medicinae / De Puero / Tyrannicida / Ovid / Prudentis / Galen / Lingua

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; Elaine Fantham & Erika Rummel (Eds. ) (with The Assistance Of Jozef Ijsewijn)

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1989

Seller ID: 13598

ISBN: 0802058183

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear with light bump to 1 corner. Minor soiling to front panel of DJ. Creasing along top edge with a bit of chipping and 1 tear (1.5 cm). ; This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus' skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs. Four are short rhetorical pieces; the next group illustrates facets of Erasmus' classical scholarship and includes several works that bear witness to Erasmus' friendship with Thomas More. The last and most expansive piece in the volume, the Lin...
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COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS: LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL WRITINGS 7 De Virtute / Oratio Funebris / Encomium Medicinae / De Puero / Tyrannicida / Ovid / Prudentis / Galen / Lingua

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; Elaine Fantham & Erika Rummel (Eds. ) (with The Assistance Of Jozef Ijsewijn)

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1989

Seller ID: 26889

ISBN: 0802058183

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear to book else fine. DJ has chipping and tears along top edge with some rubbing. ; This final volume in the Literary and Educational Writings contains diverse woks spanning a generation. They demonstrate Erasmus' skill in applying classical rhetoric to contemporary Christian needs. Four are short rhetorical pieces; the next group illustrates facets of Erasmus' classical scholarship and includes several works that bear witness to Erasmus' friendship with Thomas More. The last and most expansive piece in the volume, the Lingua, has not previously been translated into English. ...
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THE PRAISE OF FOLLY. With a Short Life of the Author by Hendrik Willem Van Loon of Rotterdam, Who Also Illustrated the Book

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; hendrik willem van loon

Price: $8.00 USD

Publisher: Walter J. Black: 1942

Seller ID: 28980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Browning and a bit of rubbing to spine. ; 254 pages
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DESIDERIUS ERASMUS: TWO ESSAYS FROM THE ADAGIA Herculei Labores & Festina Lente

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; Otto Steinmayer

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Lundu, Sarawak : [Otto Steinmayer]: 1999

Seller ID: 29504

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Creasing to spine with minor chipping. ; 77 pages
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OPERA OMNIA DESIDERII ERASMI ROTERODAMI: VOLUME VI-6 Recognita Et Adnotatione Critica Instructa Notisque Illustrata. ORDINIS Sexti, TOMUS Sextus

By: Erasmus, Desiderius; P. F. Hovingh (Ed. )

Price: $120.00 USD

Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd & North-Holland: 2003

Seller ID: 2677

ISBN: 0444514600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Contents: In evangelivm ioannis annotationes. Annotationes in acta apostolorvm. ; Erasmi Opera Omnia; 1.4 x 9.8 x 6.8 Inches; 416 pages; Hardbound.
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LE DBAT EN FRANCE SUR LE LUXE: VOLTAIRE OU ROUSSEAU? (Offprint from Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century CLXI: 1976)

By: Galliani, R.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: The Voltaire Foundation At the Taylor Institution: 1976

Seller ID: 30860

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pp 205-217; Offprint; 12 pages
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IN PRAISE OF PROMETHEUS Humanism and Rationalism in Aeschylean Thought

By: Golden, Leon

Price: $17.00 USD

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press: 1966

Seller ID: 22160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has minor edgewear with a few small chips. Price-clipped dustjacket. ; Xi, 137pp. ; 137 pages; Examines Aeschylus' religious and political thought.
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LATINITY AND ALTERITY IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

By: Haskell, Yasmin & Juanita Feros Ruys (Eds. )

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: 2010

Seller ID: 21684

ISBN: 0866984089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Viii, 304pp. This volume presents essays on early modern Latinity, which examine both humanist Latin and Latinists' responses to Otherness of various kinds. ; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Volume 360. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Volume 30; 304 pages
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EDITING POLYMATHS: ERASMUS TO RUSSELL Papers Given At the Eighteenth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems University of Toronto 5-6 November 1982

By: Jackson, H. J.

Price: $27.00 USD

Publisher: The Committee for Conference On Editorial Problems: 1983

Seller ID: 1253

ISBN: 096913830X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Light rubbing. ; Contents: Coleridge and the Self-unravelling Clue; Critical Edition of Diderot's Oeuvres compltes; On editing Erasmus; Three myths in Editing Russell's Collected Papers; Editing Hegel's Encyclopedia. ; 176 pages
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CAPITULATIONS AND GREEK INTERSTATE RELATIONS The Reflection of Humanistic Ideals in Political Events

By: Karavites, Peter (Panayiotis)

Price: $115.00 USD

Publisher: Vandehoeck & Ruprecht: 1982

Seller ID: 7027

ISBN: 3525251688

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Spine slightly faded. Very minor shelfwear. ; Text is in English with Greek selections. Examines the complexities of the Greek attitudes toward war, morality, and interstate relations through the narrow apercus provided by Greek capitulation treaties down to the end of Philip II's reign. ; Hypomnemata Untersuchungen Zur Antike Und Zu Ihrem Nachleben Heft 71; 142 pages
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LATIN AND GREEK IN AMERICAN EDUCATION With Symposia on the Value of Humanistic Studies

By: Kelsey, Francis W. (Ed. )

Price: $37.00 USD

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1911

Seller ID: 8878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Former owner's name to ffep in ink. Pages slightly tanned. Light foxing to inner covers and textblock. Light edgewear to corners. ; University of Michigan Humanistic Papers; 396 pages
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PETITE PATRIE L'Image De La Rgion Natale Chez Les crivains De La Renaissance

By: Laigneau-Fontaine, Sylvie

Price: $80.00 USD

Publisher: Librairie Droz: 2013

Seller ID: 17401

ISBN: 2600017151

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Some scuffing/staining to front wrap. Else book is fine. ; This collection, based on an international conference that took place at the University of Dijon in March 2012, addresses the theme of the native region as it appears in the works of Renaissance authors whose languages of expression were Latin and French. The contributors offer several reflections on the image that these authors left of their little homeland, to borrow Ciceros affectionate description of Arpinum. After an initial discussion of authors from southern Europe such as Mantuas Battista Spagnoli and Spains Juan Luis Vivs, the...
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CYRIACUS OF ANCONA'S EGYPTIAN VISIT AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN GENTILE BELLINI AND HIERONYMUS BOSCH

By: Lehmann, Phyllis Williams

Price: $145.00 USD

Publisher: J. J. Augustin Publisher: 1977

Seller ID: 25957

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Minor rubbing to boards. Light rubbing to boards. ; 34 pp + 46 pl at end ; 34 pages
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PHOENIX OF HIS AGE Interpretations of Erasmus c. 1550-1750

By: Mansfield, Bruce E.

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1979

Seller ID: 12195

ISBN: 0802054579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Light rubbing to spine ends. Else fine. No DJ as issued. ; Erasmus Studies 4; 348 pages
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A FIFTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN PLUTARCH British Museum Add. Ms. 22318

By: Mitchell, Charles

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Thomas Yoseloff: 1961

Seller ID: 299

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Light edgewear. Spine ends are lightly worn. Former Gift inscription and marker dot to fly-page. Otherwise Near Fine. ; 18 pps text by Charles Mitchell, 10 tipped in colour plates with accompanying text by Plutarch. Humanistic culture of early fifteenth century Florence is brilliantly exemplifiedby the colorful illuminations from this Latin translation of ten of Plutarch's Lives Accompanied by English translations describing the scenes. ; The Library of Illuminated Manuscripts; 40 pages
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A FIFTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN PLUTARCH British Museum Add. Ms. 22318

By: Mitchell, Charles

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Thomas Yoseloff: 1961

Seller ID: 16693

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Tiny stain to front board. Very minor shelfwear. DJ has a couple of tiny chips. ; 18 pps text by Charles Mitchell, 10 tipped in colour plates with accompanying text by Plutarch. Humanistic culture of early fifteenth century Florence is brilliantly exemplifiedby the colorful illuminations from this Latin translation of ten of Plutarch's Lives Accompanied by English translations describing the scenes. ; The Library of Illuminated Manuscripts; 40 pages
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PETRARCH TO PIRANDELLO Studies in Italian Literature in Honour of Beatrice Corrigan

By: Molinaro, Julius A.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press Inc.: 1973

Seller ID: 3278

ISBN: 0802052711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has a couple of tears now protected in mylar. Former owner's name on titlepage. ; Studies in Italian Literature in honour of Beatrice Corrigan HB/DJ A translation of Petrarch's Bucolicum Carmen I: Parthenias; Petrarch and the art of literature and a bibliography of the published works of Beatrice Corrigan are among this collection of 13 studies in Italian literature. ; 276 pages
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HUMANIST ESSAYS

By: Murray, Gilbert

Price: $9.00 USD

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.: 1964

Seller ID: 25468

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

Wraps yellowed. Laminate chipping in places. Internally VG. ; 204 pages
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HUMANISMUS

By: Oppermann, Hans (Hrsg. )

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 1970

Seller ID: 8871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Minor spotting to endpapers. Light foxing to foreedge of textblock. Minor bumping to corners. ; Wege Der Forschung 17 (XVII) ; 571 pages
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PETRARCH: A HUMANIST AMONG PRINCES An Anthology of Petrarch's Letters and of Selections from His Other Works

By: Petrarca, Francesco; David Thompson (Ed. )

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1971

Seller ID: 26771

ISBN: 006131529X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Writing in pen to front cover with pen notes to some pages (by R. E. Fantham). Browning to wraps. ; 249 pages
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FRANCESCO PETRARCA: POET AND HUMANIST

By: Petrarca, Francesco; Maud F. Jerrold (Ed. )

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons: 1909

Seller ID: 26775

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Frontispiece has been repaired with cloth tape. Former owner's name to ffep deleted with black marker. Chipping to spine ends. 1 corner lightly bumped. Light edgewear to corners. Dampstaining to corners of 3-4 pages and rear inner corner. Some pencil notes by R. E. Fantham. Pages tanned. ; 350 pages
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PETRARCH AT VAUCLUSE Letters in Verse and Prose

By: Petrarch; Ernest Hatch Wilkins (Trans. )

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 1958

Seller ID: 26677

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket

1 corner of boards waterstained else VG. DJ has chipping and tears with some colour loss. ; 216 pages
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AUSGEWHLTE SCHRIFTEN Aufstze Und Vortrge Zur Griechischen Dichtung Und Zum Humanismus

By: Pfeiffer, Rudolf; Winfried Bhler (Hrsg. )

Price: $80.00 USD

Publisher: C. H. Beck: 1960

Seller ID: 9605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Light shelfwear to book. DJ has edgewear with a few small chips. ; Collection of Pfeiffer's works in German and English. ; 304 pages
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A HISTORY OF SECULAR LATIN POETRY IN THE MIDDLE AGES 2 Volume Set

By: Raby, F. J. E

Price: $42.00 USD

Publisher: Clarendon Press: 1957

Seller ID: 925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Non-circulating set. Books have minor shelfwear and rubbing. Else VG; Two Volume Set. Volume I has 408 pages. Volume II has 409 pages.
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READING AND VARIANT IN PETRONIUS Studies in the French Humanists and Their Manuscript Sources

By: Richardson, Wade

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1993

Seller ID: 603

ISBN: 0802028667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Light rubbing to front cover. ; Critical editions of most classical authors are based on readings transmitted by medieval scholars that can be examined and collated. Modern editions of Petronius, on the other hand, are principally based on printed editions, most of them published in France during the sixteenth century. In this volume T. Wade Richardson considers the use made of the Petronius manuscripts then extant by seven French humanist editors for their various editions, commentaries, and notes. Some of the manuscripts they used may be equated with extant exemplars, which therefore serve a...
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READING AND VARIANT IN PETRONIUS Studies in the French Humanists and Their Manuscript Sources

By: Richardson, Wade

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1993

Seller ID: 29226

ISBN: 0802028667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

1 corner very lightly bumped. ; Critical editions of most classical authors are based on readings transmitted by medieval scholars that can be examined and collated. Modern editions of Petronius, on the other hand, are principally based on printed editions, most of them published in France during the sixteenth century. In this volume T. Wade Richardson considers the use made of the Petronius manuscripts then extant by seven French humanist editors for their various editions, commentaries, and notes. Some of the manuscripts they used may be equated with extant exemplars, which therefore serve a...
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THE CASE AGAINST JOHANN REUCHLIN Social and Religious Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Germany

By: Rummel, Erika

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 2002

Seller ID: 3259

ISBN: 0802036511

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

The case of Johann Reuchlin, one of the best-known controversies of the 16th century, has been interpreted in many ways: as a case of anti-Semitism, a controversy between humanists and scholastics, or a case foreshadowing the Reformation debate. The last interpretation was facilitated by Luther himself, who repeatedly linked his case with that of the biblical humanists Lefevre, Erasmus, and Reuchlin. In this lively critical analysis, Erika Rummel describes how the second interpretation, which was promoted in the 19th century, was replaced after WWII by a new sensitivity toward the anti-Semitic...
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DE ANNIS CLIMACTERICIS ET ANTIQUA ASTROLOGIA DIATRIBAE

By: Saumaise, Claude / Claudius Salmasius

Price: $1,175.00 USD

Publisher: Leiden, Elzevier: 1648

Seller ID: 31335

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Woodcut title vignette, devices and initials, contemporary vellum, yapp edges. Ink letters to top corner of first pages (from a to i). Small circle institution stamp to titlepage and to obverse of titlepage (University of London) and last page. Light Ink lines (1 or 2) and very minor ink notes (1 page) to index pages (about 6 pp). Rear inner cover shows faint evidence of removed plate. Small 1 cm tear near top of gutter of ffep. Former owner's name to ffep. Some foxing. Some darkening to vellum binding. ; [136] pp + 844 pp + [18] pp. "attack upon astrology by Claude Saumaise or Salmasius, the ...
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UNDER PRETEXT OF PRAISE Satiric Mode in Erasmus' Fiction

By: Thompson, Sister Geraldine

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press: 1974

Seller ID: 3924

ISBN: 0802052908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. 1 small tear to DJ. Gift inscription from author to Sister Marie Therese. ; The last decade has seen a renewal of interest in the works of Erasmus. Much has been written on the educational and editorial writings of that great humanist of the northern Renaissance, but relatively little on his fictional work. This book deals with the fiction of Erasmus and what it contains of instruction and delight. The attention of the study is focused primarily on the four satiric works: The Praise of Folly, the Colloquies, Julius Secundus, exclusus,...
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THEORIA UND HUMANITAS Gesammelte Schriften Zur Antiken Gedankenwelt.

By: Wehrli, Fritz

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Artemis Verlag: 1972

Seller ID: 9603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Very light pencil underlining and marginalia on a few pages. Dust-soiling to top of textblock. DJ has a few small chips and one closed tear to upper back corner. ; 331 pages
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Category: Humanism