ERASMUS (1466-1536). Adagiorum chiliades iuxta locos communes digesta. [etc.]

ERASMUS (1466-1536). Adagiorum chiliades iuxta locos communes digesta. [Frankfurt:] Sumptibus hæredum Andreæ Wecheli, Claudij Marnij, et Io. Aubrij, 1599. Folio (346 x 225mm). Woodcut device on title, initials, printed in double column (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary vellum, spine with red morocco lettering-piece, yapp edges (heavily stained, some creasing, upper joints split, lacks ties). Provenance: G. Currey (armorial bookplate); ownership inscriptions of three successive owners dated 1842 (Currey), 1885 (Th. Gibson) and 1961 (Geo. Engle); Küffler (old [?]signature on title); some old underlining to text and annotation. Adams E466; cf. Brunet II, 196. With 7 other works in 11 volumes, namely [The Bible (London, Christopher Barker, 1576] [with:] The Whole Booke of Psalms, London, John Day, 1576, folio, folding woodcut bird’s-eye-view of “The forme of the Temple and citie restored”, woodcut architectural title to "The Whole Booke of Psalmes" (lacks all before Aii, including titles, and also lacking New Testament title, but all supplied in crude modern facsimile, several leaves lacking at the end after Hv, or p.84, of Psalms), contemporary calf, crudely rebacked with "Geneva Bible" stamped in gilt), Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (London, Isaac Jaggard, 1620, folio, a few illustrations and ornaments hand-coloured (lacks all before B[1], many leaves lacking, a few supplied in early manuscript), contemporary calf), Biblia sacra vulgate editionis (Paris, [c. 1629], contemporary calf), Nathanael [sic] Brent’s translation of The Historie of the Councel of Trent (London, 1640, folio, contemporary calf), Erasmus’s Adagiorum (Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1650, 12mo, contemporary vellum), Thomas Fuller’s The Church History of Britain (London, 1655, folio, a few engraved plates inserted including 2 of Lichfield Cathedral [illustrated], later calf) and Biblia Sacra (Lyon, 1827, 5 vols., 16mo, contemporary calf, rather worn); together with a folder containing 8 leaves, unbound, extracted from various Venetian incunables [see illustration]. Provenance: From the Library of the late Sir George Engle. The lot sold not subject to return. (12)