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ERASMUS, Desiderius. Familiarium colloquiorum opus , Cologne: Petrus Horst, 1578. 8°, printer's device to title, historiated initial, contemporary vellum dated 1591 on front cover, lavishly blind-stamped, rectangular scene of the baptism of Christ on front cover and nativity scene on back cover, both within a blind-stamped border, claps (neatly rebacked, lacking one clasp, two small wormholes to top right of back cover, one in tail of spine, spine rubbed, new endpapers), armorial bookplate of Beresford-Jones. CICERO, Marcus Tullius. De amicitia. De senectute. Paradoxa , [Strassburg: Johann Knoblouch & Paul Goetz, November, 1520]. 8°, title within ornamental border, with the final blank (title laid down with marginal loss, light thumb-soiling and light marginal waterstaining at beginning, small wormhole in lower margin of first few leaves) [bound with the same author's:] De officiis, libri tres , [Strassburg: Johann Knoblouch & Paul Goetz, January 1521]. 8° (most margins waterstained, small wormhole in lower margin at end), 2 works in one volume, later vellum, 19th-century signature of E. Duff on blank, some old annotations and underlining throughout, in particular in the second work, armorial bookplate of Beresford-Jones. SUETONIUS, Tranquillus. Duodecim Caesares, ex Erasmi recognitione , Paris: Simon Colinaeus, 1527. 8°, printer's device on title, ornamental initials (lacking the blank E8, occasional marginal browning), 19th-century decorative calf, gilt lettering (spine lightly faded, corners and joints rubbed), g.e., scored old ownership inscription on title, some old manuscript annotations, armorial bookplates of John Bailey Longhorne, Michael Tomkinson and Beresford-Jones. Adams S2036. (3)