Tot Lof Van Dwaasheid: Encomium Moriae deur Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus, Tot Lof Van Dwaasheid: Encomium Moriae ... uit Latyn in Afrikaans vertaal deur J. L. de Villiers. Pretoria: Protea, 2002.

Small quarto, stiff card wraps, 128 pages, text illustrations. Upper wrap corners ever so slightly curled at the tips, small crease in the margin of the last leaf. In excellent condition.

This is a translation into Afrikaans of a 1509 Latin essay of Desiderius Erasmus. It was early on translated into English as The Praise of Folly, and became a classic text of the Renaissance. Erasmus actually penned the work in under one week. He was a guest of Sir Thomas More in England at the time.