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• Colloquia Familiaria et Encomium Moriae (2 volumes, in Latin; Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1828), by Desiderius Erasmus (both volumes scanned together: multiple formats at Google)
• Colloquia Familiaria et Encomium Moriae (2 volumes, in Latin; Leipzig: O. Holtze, 1888-1892), by Desiderius Erasmus
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• The Praise of Folie = Moriae Encomium (rare 1549 printing), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Thomas Chaloner (page images here at Penn)
• The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Betty Radice (HTML at mensch.net)
• The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by John Wilson
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• Eloge de la folie : nouvellement traduit du latin d'Erasme (Imprimé avec des caracteres de G. Haas :, 1780), by Desiderius Erasmus, Johann Jakob Thurneysen, Hans Holbein, and J.-Charles Laveaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erazima Roterodamského Encomium moriæ (Nákl. F. Rivnáce, 1864), by Desiderius Erasmus, Rehor Hrubý z Jeleni, and Ignác Jan Hanus (page images at HathiTrust)
• <12>Colloquia familiaria (Wolters, 1900), by N. J. Singels and Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narenschiff (von Johanne Grieninger, 1520), by Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg and Johannes Pauli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aff-ghebeelde narren speel-schuyt, verciert met meer als hondert schoone figueren nae den aerdt van veelderley sotten die op aerden syn : bewesen met stichtelijcke exempelen, so uyt de H. Schrift als oock uyt de kerckelijcke oudt-vaders ende andere schrijvers meer, tot dienste van een yegelijcken (By Henrick Lodewicxsz. van Haestens, 1610), by Sebastian Brant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stultifera navis (In Paules Churchyarde by Iohn Cawood ..., 1570), by Sebastian Brant, Mantuanus Baptista, Pope Pius II, Dominicus Mancinus, Jacob Locher, and Alexander Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Éloge de la folie. (Librairie des bibliophiles, 1872), by Desiderius Erasmus and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les louanges de la Folie: Traicté fort plaisant en forme de paradoxe, traduict d'Italien en François par feu messire Jehan du Thier (in French), trans. by Jean Du Thier, contrib. by Vianesio Albergati, Ortensio Landi, and Ascanio Persio (Gutenberg ebook)
• Das Lob der Narrheit (in German), by Desiderius Erasmus, ed. by Otto Julius Bierbaum, illust. by Hans Holbein (Gutenberg ebook)
• In Praise of Folly: Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts, by Desiderius Erasmus, illust. by Hans Holbein (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Lof der Zotheid (in Dutch), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by J. B. Kan, illust. by Hans Holbein (Gutenberg ebook)
• Moriae encomium. English ([Imprinted at London : In Fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet], Anno. M.D.XLIX. [1549]), by Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas Chaloner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Narrenschiff. English ([Enprynted at London : In Flete strete by Wynky[n] de worde prynter vnto the excellent pryncesse Margarete, Countesse of Rychemonde and Derbye, and grandame vnto our moost naturall souereyne lorde kynge Henry ye. viii., the yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.ix. [1509] the fyrste yere of the reygne of our souerayne lorde kynge Henry the viii. The. vi. daye of Iulii]), by Sebastian Brant and Henry Watson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• In praise of folly (Reeves & Turner, 1876), by Desiderius Erasmus, Hans Holbein, and White Kennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• In praise of folly (Eckler Pub. Co., 1922), by Desiderius Erasmus and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The praise of folly (University of Michigan Press, 1961), by Desiderius Erasmus and John Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The praise of folly (Clarendon Press, 1913), by Desiderius Erasmus, Mrs. Allen, and John Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• In praise of folly (G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1915), by Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The praise of folly (Hendricks House, Farrar, Straus, 1953), by Desiderius Erasmus and Leonard F. Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• The praise of folly : a new translation (Hendricks House, 1959), by Desiderius Erasmus and Leonard F. Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'eloge de la folie, composé en forme de déclamation, (Chez F. L'Honoré, 1731), by Desiderius Erasmus, Gerardus Listrius, Hans Holbein, and Nicolas Gueudeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elogio de la estulticia (V. Suárez, 1917), by Desiderius Erasmus, Hans Holbein, and Julio Puyol y Alonson (page images at HathiTrust)
• In praise of folly (Reeves & Turner, 1876), by Desiderius Erasmus and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praise of folly (Reeves & Turner, 1870), by Desiderius Erasmus, Hans Holbein, and White Kennett (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Des. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia : cum notis selectis variorum, addito indice novo (Ex Officina Hackiana, 1664), by Desiderius Erasmus, Cornelis Schrevel, and Officina Hackiana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mōrias enkōmion: Stultitiae laudatio. Desiderii Erasmi declamatio. (Apud Barbou, 1765), by Desiderius Erasmus and A.-G. Meusnier de Querlon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The praise of folly, by Desiderius Erasmus (Hamilton, Adams and co., 1887), by Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elogio della pazzia (G. Daelli, 1863), by Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elogio della pazzia e dialoghi. Traduzioni italiane di varii coi disegni, a illustrazione dell'Elogio (G. Laterza & Figli, 1914), by Desiderius Erasmus and Benedetto Croce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Éloge de la folie d'Érasme (Delarue, 1877), by Desiderius Erasmus and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The praise of folly. (Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1887), by Desiderius Erasmus and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das teur und künstlich büechlin Morie encomion das ist ein lob der torheit (W. Urban, 1884), by Desiderius Erasmus, Ernst Goetzinger, and Sebastian Franck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Lob der Narrheit aus dem Lateinischen. (G. J. Decker, 1781), by Desiderius Erasmus and Daniel Chodowiecki (page images at HathiTrust)
• Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia familiaria ; et, Encomium moriae : ad optimorum librorum fidem diligenter emendata cum succincta difficiliorum explanatione. (Sumtibus et typis Car. Tauchnitii, 1829), by Desiderius Erasmus and Pieter Schrijver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami colloquia familiaria : ex recensione & cum notis pepetuis Petri Rabi, Roterod (Sumptibus Danielis Bartholomæi, Litteris Christiani Ulrici Wagneri, 1712), by Desiderius Erasmus and Petri Rabi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encomium moriæ (Apud Iacobum Marci, 1617), by Desiderius Erasmus and Petrus Cunaeus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Éloge de la folie. (Gosselin, 1843), by Desiderius Erasmus and D. Nisard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des. Erasmi Rot. Moriae encomium (Ex Officina I. Maire, 1648), by Desiderius Erasmus and Gerardus Listrius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The praise of folie = Moriae encomium (Edward Arnold, 1901), by Desiderius Erasmus, William Strang, Janet E. Ashbee, Thomas Chaloner, and Essex House Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• In praise of folly; with illustrations after Hans Holbein together with a life of Erasmus and his epistle addressed to Sir Thomas More. (G. Allen & Unwin, 1915), by Desiderius Erasmus and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erasmi von Rotterdam Lob der narrheit in einer schertz-rede entworffen (L. Ussleber, 1735), by Desiderius Erasmus and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'eloge de la folie (François L'Honore', 1745), by Desiderius Erasmus, Gerardus Listrius, Hans Holbein, and Nicolas Gueudeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein Schock Phantastn in einem Kasten : mit ihrem Pourtrait gar net in Kupffer gebracht und ausgelacht, samt einer Vorred. (Zu finden bey Johann Christoph Weigel in Nürnberg, 1700), by Johann Christoph Weigel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mirage of life (Religious Tract Society, 1867), by William Haig Miller, John Tenniel, and Religious Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dat constelijck ende costelijck boecxken Moriae encomion : dat is Een lof der sotheyt (Facsimile Uitgaven Nederland, 1969), by Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stultitiæ' laus (Typis G. Haas, ex officina J.J. Thurneisen, 1780), by Desiderius Erasmus, Gerardus Listrius, and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elogio della pazzia (A. Forni, 1974), by Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das teur und künstlich Büechlin Morie encomion : das ist ein lob der torheit von Erasmo Roterodamo, schimpflich gespilt, zu lesen nit weniger nützlich dan lieblich (W. Urban, 1884), by Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moriae encomium. English (London : Printed for William Leak, and are to be sold at the Crown in Fleetstreet ..., 1668), by Desiderius Erasmus and John Wilson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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