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Michel de MONTAIGNE Les Essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne

Michel de MONTAIGNE

Les Essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne

chez Iean Petit-Pas, à Paris 1617, in-4 (17x23cm), (48 p.) 1089 pp (1 p.) (2 p. bl.) (39 p.), relié.


Part first edition, “Mlle de Gournay y a modifié sa préface ; c'est aussi la première où l'on ait traduit en français les nombreuses citations latines et grecques des Essais.” “Mlle de Gournay modified her preface; it is also the first in which the numerous Latin and Greek quotations in the Essays have been translated into French.” (Tchemerzine)
Beautiful title vignette of a lion, portrait of the author by Thomas de Leu on the back of the notice to the reader .
Contemporary binding in full vellum, spine with a small stitch, signs of laces . Some worming on the inner margin of the volume, without losing any text; scattered minor water stains.
Library call number in ink on the top of the first pastedown, stamp from the Le Harvre society on the first endpaper, on the leaf of the text and in the margin of some leaves.

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