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1602045155Leiden i.e. Geneva: Jean Doreau 1602. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 18th century acid calf front hinge split and front board a little loose scrape to one board. Place of printing obscured on title and Leyden written above - a false imprint almost certainly Geneva. Old signature to title scattered annotations and underlinings to text neatly in an early hand mild browning small paper repair to the preface generally quite clean. lxxii 1031pp with the preface by his "fille d'alliance" Marie de Gournay and the analytical table which is sometimes lacking and the integral blank at d8. Bookplate of General J. Doreau and a letter laid in from a bookseller about the purchase of this book and other Jean Doreau editions. Graesse V4 579 PMM 95 1580 1st edition Brunet V3 434. First published in 1580 the third book was added in 1588 the last edition during Montaigne's lifetime. "Montaigne devised the essay form in which to express his personal convictions and private meditations a form in which he can hardly be said to have been anticipated." The table entitles "Les Pages du Sieur de Montaigne Où sont contenues les plus rare remarques de son liure." is not present in all of the printings and is according to Buchon the first such table to appear since 1595. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045155. <br/><br/> Jean Doreau hardcover books
1915106560Slim 8vo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1915. Slim 8vo 63 pp. Quarter vellum with brown paper covered boards decorated title stamped in gilt to upper and lower boards. Bookplate of Myra Lumbard Palache on front paste down and her name dated December 23 1915 on front free endpaper. Preliminaries lightly foxed vellum backstrip a little spotted very good. § Number 277 of an edition of 450 printed by the Riverside Press. A sweet printing of Montaigne's famous Essay on Friendship together with twenty nine sonnets by his great friend Éstienne de La Boétie. Montaigne is said to have begun writing his essays and particularly his Essay on Friendship after the early death of Éstienne de La Boétie left him without his preferred interlocutor. This attractive book was printed at a time when the First World War was raging on the other side of the Atlantic. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
197615216New Rochelle: Arlington House 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. 160 pp. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in year of publication. A very good hardbound copy in price intact dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Arlington House hardcover books
1942RMONESS00EFLibrarie Garnier Freres 1942. Very Good. Montaigne Michel. Essais:Nouvelle Edition Conforme au Texte de L'Exemplaire de Bordeaux. 3 volumes. Rat editor Maurice. Paris: Librarie Garnier Freres 1942. 445 578 488pp. Indexed. 12mo. Pale vermillion paperback with envelope flaps. Book condition: Very good with slightly rolled and lightly creased spines. Very light rubbing and a few tiny spots. Pages have infrequent tiny spots. Printed mid-World War II this complete set survived the carnage in Europe. French language. Librarie Garnier Freres paperback books
1923155812London: Navarre Society 1923. Private. hardcover. near fine. 5 volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait in each volume. Brown stain in volume one from aan early bookmark. Thick 8vo elegantly bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards some small spotting on leather; simple blind-tooled spines with gilt fleur-de-lys decorations and raised bands; marbled endpapers uncut edges t.e.g. London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society 1923. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Translated by Charles Cotton and edited by William Carew Hazlitt.<br/><br/> Navarre Society unknown books
1987UMONAPO00FPViking Penguin 1987. Very Good. Montaigne Michel de. Apology For Raymond Sebond. Screech M. A. New York N.Y. U.S.A.: Viking Penguin 1987. xliv 190pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and faint creasing to covers. Pages lightly toned. Viking Penguin paperback books
1993UMONESS00fpPenguin 1993. Good. Montaigne Michel de. Essays: a Selection. Screech M. A. London: Penguin 1993. xxiv 445pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good. Edges rubbed especially corners. Faint creasing on covers. Penguin paperback books
1902289781London: Reeves and Turner 1902. hardcover. very good. 4 frontispieces one fold out facsimile of letter title pages in red and black. 4 volumes. Volume I xciv 2 278 pages. Volume II vi 2 487 pages. Volume III vi 362 pages. Volume IV vi 299 pages. Large 8vos full vellum with wallet edges and un-trimmed edge ribbon ties missing on volume 1 which is also slightly warped otherwise a nice clean set.<br/><br/> An entirely new edition formed from a collation of the foreign quotations a fresh English rendering and a careful revision of the text throughout. To which are added some account of the life of Montaigne.<br/><br/> Reeves and Turner unknown books
19102289608Edwin C. Hill 1910. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited 'Emerson Edition' #351 of 1050 copies. Spines toned. 1910 Hard Cover. Complete in ten volumes. Beige cloth spines over blue paper covered boards paper spine labels. 8vo. An English translation of Montaigne's essays by Charles Cotton with his life letters notes an index and an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Revised by William Carew Hazlett. Includes tinted gravure plates and additional frontispieces and titles for this edition. "Essays is the title of a book written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay a short subjective treatment of a given topic of which the book contains a large number. Essai is French for 'trial' or 'attempt'. Montaigne wrote in a kind of crafted rhetoric designed to intrigue and involve the reader sometimes appearing to move in a stream-of-thought from topic to topic and at other times employing a structured style which gives more emphasis to the didactic nature of his work. His arguments are often supported with quotes from classical Greek and Roman texts. Montaigne's stated goal in his book is to describe man and especially himself with utter frankness. He finds the great variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features. A typical quote is 'I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.' He describes his own poor memory his ability to solve problems and mediate conflicts without truly getting emotionally involved his disgust for man's pursuit of lasting fame and his attempts to detach himself from worldly things to prepare for death. Montaigne is disgusted with the violent and in his opinion barbaric conflicts between Catholics and Protestants of his time and his writings show a pessimism and skepticism quite uncharacteristic for the Renaissance. Overall Montaigne was a strong supporter of humanism. He believed in God but declined to speculate about His nature. He exhibited a quite modern cultural relativism recognizing that laws morals and religions of the various cultures while often quite different may all be equally valid. He opposed the conquest of the New World deploring the suffering it brought upon the natives. Citing the case of Martin Guerre as an example he believes that humans cannot attain certainty and he rejects general and absolute statements and all dogma. His skepticism is best expressed in the long essay 'An Apology for Raymond Sebond' Book 2 Chapter 12 which has frequently been published separately. We cannot trust our reasoning because thoughts just occur to us: we don't truly control them. We do not have good reasons to consider ourselves superior to the animals. He is highly skeptical of confessions obtained under torture pointing out that such confessions can be made up by the suspect just to escape the torture he is subjected to the first known use of this argument against torture. In the middle of the section normally entitled 'Man's Knowledge Cannot Make Him Good' he wrote that his motto was 'What do I know'. The essay on Sebond ostensibly defended Christianity. However Montaigne eloquently employed so many references and quotes from classical Greek and Roman i.e. non-Christian authors especially the atomist Lucretius. Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children but disliked the strong feelings of romantic love as being detrimental to freedom. One of his quotations is 'Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside desperate to get out.' In education he favored concrete examples and experience over the teaching of abstract knowledge that is expected to be accepted uncritically. The remarkable modernity of thought apparent in Montaigne's essays coupled with their sustained popularity made them arguably the most prominent work in French philosophy until the Enlightenment. Their influence over French education and culture is still strong. The official portrait of former French president Fran Edwin C. Hill hardcover books
1983WRCLIT84314London: The Bibliographical Society in conjunction with The Modern Humanities Research Association 1983. Large octavo. Navy cloth stamped in gilt. Plates and illustrations. First edition. Near fine without dust jacket as issued. The Bibliographical Society in conjunction with The Modern Humanities Research Association hardcover books
16131790London: Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret 1613. Second edition. Second edition of Florio's great translation which was first published in 1603. Small folio 11 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 290 x 185 mm collating: 12 630 2 blank pp. With engraved portrait of Florio on leaf A6v which was not included in the first English edition. With historiated initials and engraved head-and-tail pieces. The second and third books have separate dated title pages but pagination is continuous. This second edition replaces the original dedications of the three books to various Court ladies with a dedication and a new sonnet in Italian to the Queen Anne of Denmark who had appointed Florio as her reader in Italian and private secretary. Also for the first time in this edition is the anonymous sonnet Concerning the Honor of Bookes which was once attributed to Shakespeare but is more probably by Samuel Daniel. <br/><br/>Full contemporary polished calf. Boards and spine ruled in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. All edges speckled red. Remnants of green silk ties. Outer hinges professionally repaired. No front or rear pastedowns. Previous owner's bookplates. Contemporary ink notes on front free endpaper. Some minor toning to title-page and some occasional light dampstaining. Small hole to leaf Xx3 and light scrape to Ddd3 both with minor loss of text. Overall a very good copy. <br/><br/>This is considered the most important Elizabethan translation of any contemporary text. Its influence on English writers and philosophers of the time including Shakespeare Bacon Milton Hobbes and Locke can hardly be overestimated. "Montaigne startles the common reader at each fresh encounter if only because he is unlike any preconception we bring him. He can be interpreted as skeptic humanist Catholic Stoic even Epicurean" Bloom The Western Canon 147-151 <br/><br/>"Montaigne devised the essay form in which to express his personal convictions and private meditations a form in which he can hardly be said to have been anticipated.He finds a place in the present canon however chiefly for his consummate representation of the enlightened scepticism of the sixteenth century to which Bacon Descartes and Newton were to provide the answers in the next" Printing and the Mind of Man 95.<br/><br/> "The unfolding of a mind of genius in dialogue with itself and with the world a Renaissance humanist speaking to all humanity" Hollier A New History of French Literature 250. <br/><br/>Grolier Langland to Wither 102. Pforzheimer 378 Florio 1st edition. STC 18042. ESTC S111840. Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret unknown books
15884823Paris: chez Abel L'Angelier au premier pillier de la grand Salle du Pallais 1588. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 24.3 x 18.8 cm. 4 ff. 496 ff. first leaf is an etched title woodcut headpieces and initials. Bound in nineteenth-century red morocco spine gold stamped in six compartments gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers ribbon bookmark all edges gilt. Minor rubbing and edge wear to spine and boards book labels inside upper cover and on front flyleaf title engraving trimmed at or just inside platemark as is usual faint inscription of verso of f. 4 some edge wear to f. 2 small loss at corner of f. 247 SSS iii a few minor paper flaws very occasional minor staining very minor browning to a few quires. The first complete edition of Michel de Montaigne's 1533-92 Essais one of the most influential and profound works of world literature. This is the last edition printed during the author's lifetime and the definitive text on which all later editions are based. The volume the so-called 'cinquièsme edition' is in fact the fourth edition and contains the first appearance of the third book printed from Montaigne's manuscript copy. Sayce offers an interesting hypothesis for the odd numbering of this edition: "The substitution of fifth for fourth edition may have been prompted by the desire to suggest that the book was selling better than it was a trick unknown today." Montaigne's association with Abel L'Angelier among the great printer-editors of the time was as much a coup for the author as it was for the publisher and the present volume's format "larger than the normal L'Angelier quarto gives Montaigne's book a certain prestige" Desan p. 42. The etched title page of putti masks and garlands in a quasi-architectural framework is here in its second state with the date added and the 'g' of 'grand' corrected; the copperplate seems to have been a bit large for the book as it is "often trimmed in almost all examples even those with the fullest margins" Desan p. 42. The present copy is typical of surviving 1588 editions almost all of which have been rebound in nineteenth-century red morocco Desan p. 42. The volume carries the bookplates of Horace de Landau 1824-1803 and the Swiss poet Albert Natural as well as a label indicating that it was exhibited in 1949 at the Lucerne exhibition "Dix Siècles de livres français" cat. no. 130 bis. OCLC locates U.S. copies at the Morgan Library Yale Princeton Harvard Chicago Williams Virginia NYPL and Clark Art. P. Desan Biblioteca Desaniana: Catalogue Montaigne pp. 41-2 no. 14; Tchemerzine-Scheler IV 843; Sayce & Maskell A Descriptive Bibliography of Montaigne's Essais 1580-1700 no. 4; PPM note 95. <br/> <br/> chez Abel L'Angelier au premier pillier de la grand Salle du Pallais hardcover books
15824822Bordeaux: Simon Millanges 1582. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 4 ff 806 pp 1 ff. Bound in luxurious 19th century red morocco by Chambolle-Duru. Very good. Rare second edition carefully corrected by Montaigne himself of his chef d'oeuvre and a masterpiece of world literature. Montaigne continuously corrected his Essais throughout his lifetime and modern commentators have often been able to trace the development of his thought through these changes in addition to the reflections they provide of Montaigne's life experiences. The first of these corrected editions is the present work published shortly after Montaigne's return from a voyage to Italy. The work is of particular American interest for one of the earliest and most astute accounts of Brazilian Indians published in the 16th century "Des Cannibales" pp. 174-191 and certainly the most widely read account of Brazilian Indians known to Renaissance readers. More meticulously and beautifully printed than the first edition the present work incorporates some 34 additions and 16 new citations relative to the 1580 text. Many of the new citations reference Italian sources - an indication of the profound effect Montaigne's travels in Italy 1580-1 had on the author. Other corrections - in text style orthography punctuation and the addition or suppression of words - have also been recorded by Marcel Françon. The edition of 1582 "permits first of all the correction of a somewhat corrupted text. but also represents a commercial endeavour by Millanges who had a great interest in associating himself with a new political power ie Montaigne who had been elected Mayor of Bordeaux in 1581." Desan In his thought-provoking discussion of civilized behaviour famously titled 'Des Cannibales' Montaigne draws on printed sources-Léry Thevet and Osorio-as well as a personal encounter with ethnic Brazilians. Montaigne had been in Rouen in 1562 when a group of Indians were presented to Charles IX. In "Des Cannibales" he reports with remarkable accuracy on Brazilian morals music housing and other ethnographic details. Following a detailed description of cannibalism the essayist draws a deft parallel with the torture methods employed by the Inquisition. Like the first edition the present work contains the first two books of the Essais. A third would appear only in 1588. OCLC shows Chicago Virginia the NYPL Yale Princeton and Harvard. Desan 12; Sayce 2; Tchemerzine-Scheler IV 871; M. Françon Les Essais de 1582 Harvard 1969. <br/> <br/> Simon Millanges hardcover books
197693842Paris:: Librairie Gallimard Bibliotheque de la Pleiade. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. Text is in French. Edited by Albert Thibaudet. A later printing. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket without spine by design and acetate cover. No slipcase.; 1791 pages . Librairie Gallimard (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade), hardcover books
1982Embry 144427Franklin Library 1982. Fine. Full brown leather decoratively gilt. Franklin Library, 1982. hardcover books
1613LLV2626London:: Printed by Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret 1613. 1613. Folio. 7 ¼ x 11 inches. x 630 pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Florio by William Hole bound facing the first text leaf containing general title page Main title with headpiece and vignette separate title-pages for the second and third books elaborate ornamental woodcut-engraved initials headpieces throughout occasional mispagination; title edges browned portrait the repaired tear strengthened with later backing. Antique-style full brown calf blind- and gilt-stamped sprinkled calf raised bands maroon label. Small manuscript notation at foot of title. Very good copy. Second edition in English of Montaigne’s seminal masterpiece with the key Elizabethan translation of John Florio used by Shakespeare as a source for The Tempest circa 1611 a splendid folio volume in contemporary calf boards. "Montaigne devised the essay form in which to express his personal convictions and private meditations a form in which he can hardly be said to have been anticipated. He finds a place in the present canon however chiefly for his consummate representation of the enlightened skepticism of the 16th century to which Bacon Descartes and Newton were to provide the answers in the next" - Printing and the Mind of Man 95. "Walt Whitman and Norman Mailer are indirect descendants of Montaigne even as Emerson and Nietzsche are his direct progeny" - Bloom Western Canon pp.147–151. "It is generally accepted that Shakespeare used Florio’s translation when writing the passage on the natural commonwealth in his Tempest" - Pforzheimer 378. Initially published in French in 1580 Montaigne’s Essayes were first published in English in 1603 with this translation. REFERENCES: STC 18042. Lowndes 1588. ESTC S111840. Printed by Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret, 1613. hardcover books
182811615Paris: Tardieu - Denesle Libraire 1828. Original blue paper wrappers with printed paper spine labels. Overall VG Vol I shows a bit more wear than the remainder with the lower corner msg from the front wrapper & vertical 'split' lines in the spine paper. 6 volumes. 8vo. <br/><br/>Evidently a somewhat uncommon set as OCLC has no institutional listings for this edition per an 11/16/99 search. Tardieu - Denesle, Libraire unknown books
1946265657New York: Heritage Press 1946. Hardcover. xlvi 816p. introduction very good Heritage Club editionin faux marbled boards brown cloth spine and gilt in plain gray shipping slipcase Sandglass newsletter laid-in with some toning. The handbook and comments would be found in the missing volume two. Heritage Press hardcover books
159566552The Definitive Edition and First Folio Edition MONTAIGNE Michel de. Les Essais.Edition nouvelle trouvee apres le deceds de l'Autheur reveue & augmentee par luy d'un tiers plus qu'aux precedentes Impressions. Paris: chez Michel Sonnius 1595. The Definitive edition and the first folio edition. Folio. 24 523 1 blank 231 1 errata pp. Modern maroon morocco. Morocco spine label raised bands old gilt edges. Contents skillfully washed and sized a few marginal tears not affecting text some scattered pencil marginalia. A very good copy. This edition edited by the French bluestocking Marie de Jars Demoiselle de Gournay 1566-1645 has some claim to be the definitive edition of Montaigne's Essais. Mlle de Gournay who as a very young girl had travelled to Paris to meet her intellectual hero was Montaigne's adopted daughter. After Montaigne's death his widow presented Mlle de Gournay with the philosopher's copiously annotated copy of the 1588 edition of his Essais the last issued during his lifetime and the first to include the third book. Having inserted Montaigne's additions marked the alterations and translated all the quotations Mlle de Gournay sent the proofs to Bordeaux where the poet Pierre de Brach collated them against another copy with Montaigne's annotations deposited in the convent of the Feuillants in Bordeaux. "The edition thus produced in 1595 has with justice passed as the standard even in preference to those which appeared in the author's lifetime" Ency. Brit. Copies were also issued with the imprint of Abel l'Angelier. STC French Books p. 317; Adams M-1622 both l'Angelier imprint; Graesse IV 579 "aujourd'hui la principale edition de Montaigne pour l'authenticite du texte". HBS 66552. $25000 Chez Michel Sonnius hardcover books
18895643London. David Stott. 1889. Decorated cloth with gilt titled spine. 16mo. Near Fine. David Stott. hardcover books
1980281989Franklin Center: Franklin 1980. hardcover. fine. Gonzalo Fonseca. Illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca. 477 pages. Thick 8vo gilt-stamped black leather a.e.g. Franklin Library 1980. A fine copy.<br/><br/> 100 Greatest Books of All Time series.<br/><br/> Franklin unknown books
1979172132Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library 1979. First editions thus. Hardcovers. Three volumes of essays by Michel de Montaigne each translated by Donald M. Frame. All three books are in near fine condition in full leather bindings with all edges gilt and a bound in silk book marker but with a bookplate to the front pastedown of each book. A very nice set. The Franklin Library unknown books
1759885651759. MONTAIGNE Michel de. THE ESSAYS OF MICHAEL SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE translated into English. In three volumes. London: Printed for S. and E. Ballard J. Clarke D. Browne et al. 1759. The seventh edition "with very considerable amendments and improvements from the most elegant and accurate French edition of Peter Coste;" it is a revised version of Charles Cotton's translation. Three octavo volumes: 2841426; 460836; 446827 pp. In contemporary leather bindings with gilt stamped double-rule frames on sides the bindings lack spine labels and show moderate wear particularly at heels and crowns with some soiling/staining. The joints of volume one have hairline cracks. Text leaves are clean. However one leaf in volume one pp. 265-6 has along closed tear but without any loss of text. Each volume has the ownership signature of Parker Pillsbury as well as some occasional pencil notes or markings in the margins in volumes two and three. Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 worked ceaselessly for human betterment over the course of his long life primarily as an abolitionist and women's rights activist. He edited The Herald of Freedom Concord New Hampshire in the 1840s and The National Anti-Slavery Standard New York NY in 1866 all while working as an abolitionist lecture agent for the New Hampshire Massachusetts and American anti-slavery societies. After the Civil War Pillsbury labored for Negro suffrage and was interested in temperance political reform international peace and women's rights. He served as vice-president of the New Hampshire Woman Suffrage Association and in 1865 helped draft the constitution of the American Equal Rights Association. For a year and a half 1868-69 he was co-editor with Elizabeth Cady Stanton of The Revolution a radical weekly created by Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. D.A.B. VII pp.608-9. unknown books
1934289806New York: Knopf 1934. hardcover. fine. 3 volumes tall thick 8vo decorative black cloth brown printed d.w. edgeworn. New York: Knopf 1934-1936. A fine set in very good dust wrappers.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
223612Hillsborough California:. One of 200 coipes. Historiated title page border in green on title page; title page also printed in burgundy and purple. Historiated head-bands and initial letters in green burgundy and purple with the letters highlighted in gold. Printed on all-rag Oxbow paper. 181 pp. 1 vols. Imperial 8vo. Bound by William Wheeler in full dark magenta French brocade boards with title in gilt on spine. Fine in gold dust jacket. One of 200 coipes. Historiated title page border in green on title page; title page also printed in burgundy and purple. Historiated head-bands and initial letters in green burgundy and purple with the letters highlighted in gold. Printed on all-rag Oxbow paper. 181 pp. 1 vols. Imperial 8vo. unknown books
