1663 Rare Book - Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Moriae Encomium (In Praise of Folly)Author: Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Commentary by Gerardus Listrius. Title: Moriae Encomium, Cum Gerardi Listrii Commentariis. Epistolae aliquot in fine additae. Una cum Erasmi responsione adversus Martini Lutheri Epistolam. (In Praise of Folly, with the Commentary of Gerardus Listrius; together with several appended letters and Erasmuss reply to the letter of Martin Luther.)Publisher: Oxoniae (Oxford), Typis W. Hall, Impensis F. Oxlad Sen. & F.

was a French painter of battles

His most famous works include Metamorphoses

and later La Gazette de Montréal in 1785

`Flower Fairies of the Garden'

Author: Geertruida Vogel

a hero torn between love and duty in a world of Viking honor and adventure

celebrated for her contributions to children’s books during the Golden Age of Illustration

Pages: 800 pages

This major humanist work stands at the crossroads of medieval scholasticism and Renaissance moral philosophy

Scribner's Sons

featuring handwritten title on the spine (hinges fine

A classic of Victorian mythography