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1910884311910. MONTAIGNE MICHEL DE. WORKS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE WITH NOTES LIFE AND LETTERS. Translated by Charles Cotton revised by William Carew Hazlett and with an Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Edwin C. Hill 1910. 1/1050. Illustrated. 10 volumes complete. Three quarters leather with marbled boards. A bit of rubbing to the extremes overall a very good set. unknown books
191067623The Emerson Edition MONTAIGNE Michel de. The Works of Michel de Montaigne. With notes life and letters. Complete in ten volumes. New York: Edwin C. Hill 1910. Emerson Edition. Limited to 1050 numbered copies of which this is number 73. Ten octavo volumes. Measures 9 x 6 inches. Comprising the Essays of Montaigne nine volumes translated by Charles Cotton revised by William Carew Hazlett i.e Hazlitt and the Life and Letters of Montaigne one volume with notes and index revised by William Carew Hazlett i.e. Hazlitt. With an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Photogravure frontispieces and plates. Frontispieces in two states one hand-colored. Full dark olive crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively gilt-stamped with a floral motif and paneled in gilt spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt turn-ins maroon crushed levant morocco doublures decoratively tooled in gilt matching maroon watered silk liners top edge gilt others uncut. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Spines uniformly faded to brown. A fine and attractive set. HBS 67623. $3500 Edwin C. Hill unknown books
1982Embry 144427Franklin Library 1982. Fine. Full brown leather decoratively gilt. Franklin Library, 1982. hardcover books
19822312615Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1982. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Wald Carol. Near fine. 1982 Hard Cover. 481 pp. Burgundy cloth binding with gilt decoration and gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. CONTENTS: Introduction; To the Reader; On Man: Of Liars; That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them; That Our Happiness Must Not Be Judged Until After Our Death; That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die; One Man's Profit Is Another Man's Harm; Of Friendship; Of Moderation; Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment; Of Age; Of Conscience; Of Books; That Our Desire is Increased by Difficulty; Of Giving the Lie; Of Freedom of Conscience; Of Solitude; Against Do-Nothingness; Of Virtue; Of Anger. On Principle: Of Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law; Of the Education of Children; It is Folly to Measure the True and False by Our Own Capacity; Of Cannibals; Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes; Of Sumptuary Laws; Of Ancient Customs; Of Evil Means Employed to a Good End; On Some Verse of Virgil; Of the Disadvantage of Greatness. On Knowledge and Pride: Apology for Raymond Sebond. The Franklin Library hardcover books
1982108668The Franklin Library Pennsylvania 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. 1/4 leather bound with cloth covered boards gilt detailing and a permanent satin ribbon book marker. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania hardcover books
1910311676New York: Edwin C. Hill 1910. The Emerson Edition #97 of 250 sets. 10 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters red morocco gilt spines t.e.g. marbled sides and matching endpapers. Fine. The Emerson Edition #97 of 250 sets. 10 vols. 8vo. VERY FINE SET. Edwin C. Hill 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
1950305121London Cassell and Company Ltd. 1950. 1950. First edition so stated. 8vo. Small 8vo. Woodcut frontispiece portrait. Dust jacket unclipped; small chips; rubbed. Very good. 138 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Cassell and Company Ltd. [1950]. hardcover 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
19081313362London: Grant Richards 1908. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo 453/657/498 pages; G/VG-/VG-; half bound in brown cloth; spines have faded gilt lettering; binding of volume one has heavy wear along the sides of the spine with chipping and an open tear has minor rubbing on both boards and heavy wear on the fore edge corners; bindings of volumes two and three have minor wear along the top and bottom of the spine have minimal rubbing on both boards have wear on the fore edge corners; original owner's name is written on the ffep in each volume; each volume has a plate with tissue guard next to the title page; shelved philosophy. 1313362. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Grant Richards hardcover books
1920Embry 190983J. M. Dent N.d Circa 1920. Light wear very good to near fine. Small blue leatherette. Translated by John Florio J. M. Dent, N.d, Circa 1920. hardcover books
19496131New York: The Modern Library 1949. 1st ML edition. Later issue dj '344'. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG/VG sp darkened. 12mo. <br/><br/> The Modern Library hardcover books
1998268030New York: St. Martin's 1998. First. hardcover. very good/very good. A few text Illus. 8vo 1/2 red cloth d.w. New York: St Martin's Press 1998. Very good<br/><br/> Author fished throughout the former Soviet Union.<br/><br/> St. Martin's unknown 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
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
1943UDEMMIC00efWalter J. Black 1943. Very Good. de Montaigne Michel. Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays. Frame translator Donald M. New York: Walter J. Black 1943. Classics Club. 364pp. 12mo. Book condition: Very good with faint abrasions and stains on fore- and foot-edge. Walter J. Black unknown books
1652D8765Paris: Chez Augustin Courbé Estienne 1652. Hardcover. Very Good. Large folio 390 x 265mm. 840pp. Copper plate engraved printer’s device of Courbé a single palm tree surrounded by putti some trumpeting in frame with motto in allusion to his name Curvata Resurgo curved I straighten up signed by Daret. Title printed in red and black. Full-page copper engraved half title with author portrait of Michel de Montaigne the same as the 1635 edition. Near contemporary calf the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with raised bands; worming and small dampstain to margin of last 100 pages not affecting text other spotting and small stains binding slightly rubbed with losses to spine tips otherwise internally bright with clean wide margins. <br/><br/>Large Paris folio edition of Montaigne’s moralist and political ‘Essais.’ This 1652 edition contains beside the Essays the long preface and dedication of de Gournay the preface of Montaigne a summary of his life references to the authors in the margin and translations of the passages quoted. These citations often very lengthy make the Essays not only one of the great philosophical investigations in the Western tradition but a storehouse of the most beautiful and profound passages of classical literature. His citations from classical authors including Lucretius are especially remarkable. The whole is preceded by a notice of Estienne in which he details the improvements he has made in this edition most notably by placing the translations opposite the text – the first time this arrangement was introduced. Estienne also allowed Courbé the privilege to use his name and device on the title for this edition only although the work was printed on Estienne’s press. This same year Cousterout prints the work but uses the Estienne device. “I do not teach I tell” – Montaigne Montaigne’s Essays are central to the development of the early modern consciousness of the self; his skepticism and proto-empiricism were highly influential upon early modern scientific enquiry especially upon the works of Bacon. In the Essays Montaigne transcends his skepticism and transforms his stoicism to offer a positive and urgent message to his contemporaries. This message constitutes a new ethics one of goodness fellowship and trust all countering the model of heroic virtue which dominated his culture and his class by honor-bound aristocrats and religious zealots alike. Directed principally to the nobility of a nation torn apart by civil and religious conflict which forms the backdrop of the Essays Montaigne’s message shuns violence and urges for a new civilizing process. His moral argument depicts extreme humanist aspirations toward radical and divisive individualism in the name of a shared humanity. Canonical work in large format attractive and good with Courbé’s device found less often. Chez Augustin Courbé [Estienne] hardcover books
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
1979108814The Franklin Library Pennsylvania 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of "The Great Books of the Western World". Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. Previous owner's bookplate on the front free end page. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania hardcover 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
2013Embry 192397Penguin Classics 2013. Bookplate faint wear near fine to fine. Oversized blue cloth no dust jacket. Translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 2013. hardcover books
190231631London: Reeves and Turner 1902. 4 volumes 8vo 4 frontispieces folding 2-p. facsimile letter; slightly later half green morocco by Zaehnsdorf gilt spines in 5 compartments 3 disparate gilt-lettered in 3 t.e.g.; spines browned else near fine. "A fresh English rendering and a careful revision of the text throughout to which are added some account of the life of Montaigne notes a translation of all the letters known to be extant and an enlarged index ; with portraits and other illustrations." <br/><br/> Reeves and Turner 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
29220Hazlitt William Carew ed. MONTAIGNE Michael de. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE. Three volumes. London: Reeves and Turner 1877. 8vo. Half-morocco. First edition thus. Edited by William Hazlitt with a life of Montaigne and trans ations of his letters. Very good. unknown 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
