Opera Omnia. Emendatiora et auctiora, ad optimas editiones praecipue quas ipse Erasmus postremo curavit, summa fide exacta, doctorumque virorum notis illustrata. FACSIMILE EDITION. 9 vols of 11 (lacking vols V & VI)

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~Original full buff cloth, two red gilt labels per spine. Folios (39.5 x 26.5cm). Mild marking to boards & spines, and slight wear to extremities, both most pronounced to vol. IIIa, which also has tiny dent to cloth near spine on front board & board corners slightly pushed in. Minor rubbing to spine of some vols, most obvious to vol. II. Some use-marks to page edges. Vol. I has title in French to spine (‘Erasme Opera’ rather than ‘Erasmi Opera’), with loose publisher’s explanatory note to inside vol. All vols have armorial bookplates of Somerville College, Oxford, to inside front boards, with cancelled Somerville stamps to all page edges & all front and rear endpapers. Title pages printed in red & black. Numerous illus, some folding. Facsimile reprint of the 1703-1706 Leiden edition, published by Pieter van der Aa (Petri Vander Aa), in 1715 appointed head printer for the city and its university. Vol. I has no date for reprint; other vols have 1962. Volumes: I: Quae ad institutionem literarum spectant / II: Adagia / IIIa: Epistolae / IIIb: Epistolae / IV: Quae ad morum institutionem pertinent / VII: Paraphrases in N. Testementum / VIII: Versa e patribus graecis / IX: Apologia, pars 1 / X: Apologia, pars 2. Lacking vols V: Quae ad pietatem instituunt, & VI: Novum Testamentum. Expensive to ship overseas (weighs over 30 kg).~Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs.