Effigies Des. Erasmi Roterodami literatorum principis, & Gilberti Cognati Nozereni, eius amanuensis: unà cum eorum symbolis, & Nozeretho Cognati patria. : Accesservnt et doctorum aliquot uirorum in D. Erasmi & Gilberti Cognati laudem, carmina.

Includes couplets, epigrams, odes, etc. by various authors on the subject of Erasmus and his works. See Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le baron James de Rothschild for details.
Illustrated with large double-page woodcut of Erasmus and Gilbert Cousin, 6 smaller woodcut illustrations including a medallion woodcut of Erasmus by Hans Holbein after the medal by Quentin Metsys, a portrait of Cousin (aged 46, dated 1553), their respective emblems, and two views of Nozeroy, Franche-Comté (Cousin's birthplace).
Gilbert Cousin of Nozeroy (1506-1572) became a companion and scholarly assistant to the elderly Erasmus in 1530, and moved from Freiburg to Basel with his master. This work includes the famous woodcut of Erasmus and Cousin in Erasmus's study in Freiburg, based on a painting commissioned by Cousin shortly after Erasmus's death in 1535. The shelving of the books can be seen clearly in open bookcase behind Cousin (the other bookcase remains closed) with the folio volumes arranged with the foredges facing outwards. The depiction of the scene is discussed in Egbertus van Gulik, Erasmus and his Books (Toronto, 2018), page 74-76.
Colophon: Basileae, per Ioannem Oporinum, Anno Salutis mumanae M.D. LIII. Mense Augusto.
Signatures: a-b⁸ (last leaf blank): 16 leaves.