[UNIVERSITA' DI PARIGI] - ERASMO DA ROTTERDAM (1466 o 1469-1536) - Collectanea Adagiorum. Strasbourg: Matthias Schurerius, 1519.   An elegantly and richly annotated copy by a contemporary hand, likely of a student, of this work from the first quarter of the 16th century in which Erasmus collects and comments on proverbs, maxims, popular and literary idioms of the antiquity.   8vo (203 x 141mm). Title in red and black within an elaborate woodcut border (title with some marginal wormtracks and small holes touching some letters and continuing on the following pages, rarely compromising the readability of the text, lacking k4-k5 replaced with facsimile leaves, some soiling and browning). Modern red leather titled in gilt, gilt dentelles (minor rubbing).

Estimate € 200 - 300

Sold € 3,000