ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466?-1536). Stultiae laus. Basel: Typis Genathianis, 1676. 8° (182 x 110mm.). Engraved title by Caspar Merian after Hans Holbein, title with engraved vignette, one headpiece, 3 full-page engraved portraits, a full-page illustration of Erasmus's funeral monument, 81 engraved illustrations (some printed wrong way up, four are pasted in on folding slips at pp. 48, 86, 168 and 236, two others with flaps created by the binder), by Caspar Merian after Settler. (Title lightly soiled, marginal repairs to seven leaves, some light browning.) 18th-century boards (spine worn, inner joints split). Provenance: Theodore Besterman (E. P. Goldschmidt & Co. cataloguing note). -- Battista SPAGNUOLI (died 1516). Bucolica. Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, August 1515. 4° (198 x 140mm.). Woodcut printer's device on colophon leaf. (Stain on title, worming from title to B2, some soiling of margins.) Modern red calf, spine gilt (right margin trimmed). Provenance: Early marginal annotations. -- Septem Illustrium Virorum Poemata. Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, 1662. 8° (179 x 104mm.). Woodcut printer's device on title, 10 engraved illustrations including 8 emblems. (One wormhole from title to D7.) Contemporary sheep (one wormhole to upper cover). Provenance: Arenburg (Nordkirchen bookplate). (3)