MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592). Journal du voyage…en Italie…en 1580 & 1581 . Rome and Paris: Le Jay, 1774.
MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592). Journal du voyage…en Italie…en 1580 & 1581 . Rome and Paris: Le Jay, 1774. 4° (282 x 213 mm). Half-title. Engraved portrait frontispiece after St. Aubin. (A few leaves with a few spots.) Contemporary calf, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, brown and green lettering-pieces in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, red edges. Provenance : armorial bookplate with motto “Ab Aeterno.” FIRST EDITION of Montaigne’s 16th-century journey; his manuscript was found nearly 200 years after his death by Abbott Prunis, and was published by Antoine Gabriel Meunier de Quelon. Brunet III: 1841. [ With: ] MONTAIGNE. Les Essais…Par Pierre Coste. Nouvelle édition plus ample & plus correcte que la dernière de Londres . Paris: Par la Societé, 1725. 3 volumes, 4° (282 x 212 mm). Titles printed in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece vol.I. Bound uniformly with the Journal , with slightly different tooling on the spine. Second, most complete, edition by Pierre Coste. Brunet III: 1839.
MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592). Journal du voyage…en Italie…en 1580 & 1581 . Rome and Paris: Le Jay, 1774.
MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592). Journal du voyage…en Italie…en 1580 & 1581 . Rome and Paris: Le Jay, 1774. 4° (282 x 213 mm). Half-title. Engraved portrait frontispiece after St. Aubin. (A few leaves with a few spots.) Contemporary calf, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, brown and green lettering-pieces in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, red edges. Provenance : armorial bookplate with motto “Ab Aeterno.” FIRST EDITION of Montaigne’s 16th-century journey; his manuscript was found nearly 200 years after his death by Abbott Prunis, and was published by Antoine Gabriel Meunier de Quelon. Brunet III: 1841. [ With: ] MONTAIGNE. Les Essais…Par Pierre Coste. Nouvelle édition plus ample & plus correcte que la dernière de Londres . Paris: Par la Societé, 1725. 3 volumes, 4° (282 x 212 mm). Titles printed in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece vol.I. Bound uniformly with the Journal , with slightly different tooling on the spine. Second, most complete, edition by Pierre Coste. Brunet III: 1839.
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