12mo. (XXXIV),394,(2 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Ref: Breugelmans p. 494, 1642:7) (Details: Boards with blind double fillet borders. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a farmer stamping a shovel into the ground, above the head of the farmer the motto 'fac et spera'. Woodcut portrait of Erasmus in the introduction. Pages 1-160 contain the biography of Erasmus, p. 161-394 the more than 70 letters of him) (Condition: Lacking the frontispiece. Vellum age-toned, stained and soiled. Manuscript title on the back. Front hinge cracking. Title slightly thumbed and soiled. Old ownership entry on the title. Almost invisible wormhole in the blank lower margin of 50 pages at the beginning. Occasionally small and old ink notes in the margins of 19 pages. Some pencil stripes. (See the provenance for the maker of these notes)) (Note: Joannes Maire, publisher, printer and bookseller in Leiden, 1603-1657, produced during his career a number Erasmus of editions. The project 'that can be seen as a series, and which ensured Maire's reputation through the ages, is undoubtedly his edition of Erasmus's 'opera omnia' in 12mo. 23 different volumes appeared between 1641 and 1652. The first half of this book contains the introduction and the biographic sketches, the rest is filled with the letters of Erasmus) (Provenance: Inscription in small type on the title: 'Liber Guilhelmi Griffithii Anglo-Brittani Artium Magistri Cantebrigensis; emtus 1.6. 1664'. Ink annotations of William Griffith in the margins of 19 p. We couldnot find this William Griffith in J. Venn & J.A. Venn's 'Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900', Cambridge 1947) (Collation: *12 (minus leaf *1, the frontispiece); 2*6, A-Q12, R6) (Without the 2 conjugate leaves with the portrait and coat of arms of Thomas Neale, which according to Breugelmans only some copies have)) (Photographs on request)