Erasmus of Rotterdam, Desiderius. Adagiorum chiliades quator cum dimidia ex postrema autoris recognitione. 48 nn. Bl., 1071 S. With 2 woodcut printer brands. 30.5 x 19.5 cm. Calfskin d. C. (stronger rubbed, damaged and bruised, back partly defective). Basel, Froben and Episcopus, 1551. VD16 E 1947. Bezzel 88. Van der Haeghen I, 5. – The famous collection of proverbs has been printed in the same way since 1539 by Froben and Episcopus. However, this edition contains for the first time a valuable fourth index with the sources of the more than 4000 proverbs. – Title with squeeze folds and half solved, the last sheet of the foreheads deposited in the side margin. The first approx. 150 pages with moisture stain in the lower bow, there also with worm tracks. Exemplary from the historical school library of the Stiftisches Gymnasium Düren, with corresponding donation entry from 1754 on the intention and possession entry in ink on the title and the final sheet. Further with large coat of arms copper.