ERASMUS - CHAPPUZEAU (Samuel). Les Entretiens familiiers d'Érasme, première décade [Second Decade - Third Decade. Des banquets, & Merveilles de Nature]. Paris : Louis Billaine, 1662. - 3 parts in one volume, in-12, 136 x 76 : (11 ff.), 140 pp, (2 blank ff.) ; (6 ff.), 168 pp, (1 blank f.) ; (6 ff.), 173 pp. Light purple morocco, boards decorated with a cold roulette between two gilt fillets framing a gilt and mosaic plate with rosettes, palmette and foliage scrolls surrounding in the centre a cross of palmettes surmounted by gilt and mosaic scrolls, spine with two large nerves, gilt and mosaic, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges (Ducastin). First edition, shared between Louis Billaine and Thomas Jolly, of the translation made by the playwright and poet Samuel Chappuzeau (1625-1701) of 30 interviews or colloquies of Erasmus. A very fine copy in a mosaic binding by Ducastin. The portrait of Erasmus is missing. Some minor wear and tear. Provenance: Bernard Sancholle-Henraux, with bookplate.