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ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466-1536). Apophthegmatum ex optimis utriusque linguae scriptoribus...libri octo. Lyon: Jean Marcorel for Barthélemy Vincent, 1573 (colophon: 1571).
Small 8° (123 x 75mm). Device on title. Contemporary German vellum tooled in silver, with yapp edges, on sides a fine large panel with sea-monsters in the four corners, flat spine divided by rolls into four compartments, each with two oval arabesques, yapp edges decorated with a chain-roll enclosing small marguerites, edges gilt and gauffered, partly with binder's tools, to an arabesque design, (some minor rubbing, silver oxidised to a dark grey).
A CHARMING GERMAN LATE RENAISSANCE BINDING, with a rare panel attributed by Schunke to a Strassburg bindery. It was presumably designed for books of this format, since it fills the covers exactly. It is employed as a centrepiece on the Strassburg binding of red velvet described and illustrated in Schunke, Einbände der Palatina, 1962, I, p.121, plate 98. The Palatina binding also has impressions of the small oval arabesque tool in the compartments of the spine.
Small 8° (123 x 75mm). Device on title. Contemporary German vellum tooled in silver, with yapp edges, on sides a fine large panel with sea-monsters in the four corners, flat spine divided by rolls into four compartments, each with two oval arabesques, yapp edges decorated with a chain-roll enclosing small marguerites, edges gilt and gauffered, partly with binder's tools, to an arabesque design, (some minor rubbing, silver oxidised to a dark grey).
A CHARMING GERMAN LATE RENAISSANCE BINDING, with a rare panel attributed by Schunke to a Strassburg bindery. It was presumably designed for books of this format, since it fills the covers exactly. It is employed as a centrepiece on the Strassburg binding of red velvet described and illustrated in Schunke, Einbände der Palatina, 1962, I, p.121, plate 98. The Palatina binding also has impressions of the small oval arabesque tool in the compartments of the spine.