ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS.

EXPLICATIO IN SYMBOLUM APOSTOLORUM, & DECALOGUM.-

      4 works in one. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With woodcut printer's devices on all four title-pages. 264; 330; 144; (8), (4 blank pages), 176 pp. Fine Sammelband with four theological works by Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), all published by the well-known Leyden printer Joannes Maire. The second work is preceded by a letter of Erasmus to Paulus Volsius, dated Basel, 15 August 1518 (p. 3-41); the third is in the form of a letter to Hieroslaus de Lasko; the fourth work is printed in 1642, and is preceded by a letter of Erasmus to Julius Pflug, dated Freiburg i/Br., 31 July 1533. Good copies, with two ownership's entries on title: ''Sum Justi Caspari Scherii Berol. Marchici'' (Justus Caspar Scher (ca. 1700), and ''Joannes ... man 1651''; ms. note on inside frontcover.- (Some browning; some annotations in ink). Ad 1: Vander Haeghen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, p. 105; Catalogue of the Erasmus collection in the City Library of Rotterdam, p. 128; Breugelmans, Fac et spera, p. 475. Ad 2: Vander Haeghen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, p. 83; Catalogue of the Erasmus collection in the City Library of Rotterdam, p. 98; Breugelmans, Fac et spera, p. 473. Ad 3: Vander Haeghen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, p. 121;Catalogue of the Erasmus collection in the City Library of Rotterdam, p. 148; Breugelmans, Fac et spera, p. 477. Ad 4: not in Vander Haeghen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana?; Catalogue of the Erasmus collection in the City Library of Rotterdam, p. 140; Breugelmans, Fac et spera, p. 493.