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MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592). Les Essais. Nouvelle dition, exactement purge des dfauts. Brussels: Franois Foppens, 1659.
3 volumes, 12 (153 x 870mm). Engraved frontispiece by Pierre Clouvet. Red morocco by Bozrian Jeune, covers with gilt and blind ruled borders, spines elaborately gilt with ivy leaves tools, gilt inner dentelles, blue silk endpapers, g.e. (some slight worming to inner joints, some wormholes to spines). Provenance: Darlois (partially erased signature on title page) Sir James William Colvile (1810-1880, bookplate and manuscript inscription on front-fly leaf); Lytton Strachey (bookplate).
An attractive copy of a 'jolie dition, trs recherche'. Tchemerzine, VIII, 437; Sayce and Maskell 33. (2)
3 volumes, 12 (153 x 870mm). Engraved frontispiece by Pierre Clouvet. Red morocco by Bozrian Jeune, covers with gilt and blind ruled borders, spines elaborately gilt with ivy leaves tools, gilt inner dentelles, blue silk endpapers, g.e. (some slight worming to inner joints, some wormholes to spines). Provenance: Darlois (partially erased signature on title page) Sir James William Colvile (1810-1880, bookplate and manuscript inscription on front-fly leaf); Lytton Strachey (bookplate).
An attractive copy of a 'jolie dition, trs recherche'. Tchemerzine, VIII, 437; Sayce and Maskell 33. (2)