Beschreibung:

Erasmus, Desiderius. Quae toto volumine continentur. Pacis querela. De regno administrando. Institutio principis christiani. Panegyricus ad Philippum & carmen. Item ex Plutarcho. De discrimine adulatoris & amici. De utilitate capienda ex inimicis. De doctrina principum. Principi cum philosopho semper esse disputandum Item declamatio super mortuo puero. (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, September 1518) First Aldine edition of The Complaint of Peace, printed the year after Johann Froben's first, Basel edition. 8vo (159 x 99 mm). Italic types, 30 lines plus headline (and shoulder-notes). collation: a-z8 A-E8: 224 leaves (E7 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and E8v, initial spaces with guide letters. (Light dampstaining to title-page and a few following leaves, worming at inner margin of last four leaves.) binding: Contemporary Italian limp vellum (167 x 110 mm), slightly overlapping edges, spine ink-lettered with author and title, somewhat later lettering at foot adding imprint information, plain endpapers and edges, remnants of two ties, plain edges. (Soiling and staining.) provenance: Unidentified owner, Erasmus's name censored in ink throughout — possibly Maggs Bros., Catalogue 866 (London 1959), item 6 (£12; "mottled vellum"). acquisition: Purchased from E. K. Schreiber, New York, 1981. references: UCLA 170; Adams E404; Cataldi Palau 40; Edit16 18203; Renouard 82/5; USTC 828231