Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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Accession number
PML 125247
Creator
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.
Published
On les vend a Paris : [Charlotte Guillard] au soleil d'or, en la rue saint Iacques, 1539.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Author's name from privilege and prologue.
Privilege identifies the printer as "la veufue feu Claude Cheualon" [i.e. Charlotte Guillard].
Description
[284] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
"[Ava?]ttir [1648]" inscription on lower flyleaf; inscription repeated without date on facing page. Heavily obscured inscriptions on title page; one seems to repeat "[Ava]ttir," dated 1647. Drawing at tail.
Provenance
From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled calf over paperboards; printed and manuscript waste; printed waste visible at flyleaves inside lower cover; manuscript title on head; evidence of paper spine label; edges colored red; sewing structure visible.
Classification
Department