Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais de Michel, Seigneur de Montaigne
Pierre L'Amy
1636
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Essays of Montaigne once belonging to the Dauphin de France.
- Michel de Montaigne (French).
- Paris: Pierre L'Amy, 1636.
- [8], 1,129 pages, [1], [32] index.
- Octavo.
- Frontispiece portrait of Montaigne laid in, possibly married from a different edition.
- Red wax seal affixed to the front pastedown reading "Cabinet de Monsieur le Dauphin."
- Front free endpaper with pencil note reading "Copy of the Duc d'Angoulême, son of King Charles X of France."
- Bound in contemporary full calf, covers with double gilt fillet borders, spine with gilt titling and tooling.
Condition Report
Very GoodSome light wear to binding including some staining and rubbing.
Spine with vertical creases and hinges showing some wear.
Small burn mark to pages 21-26, 313-316 with very light loss to text.
Very light worming to lower gutter of a1-F4, upper fore corner of 3D5-3M3, light loss to text.
4A1 with small chip torn from lower fore corner, no loss to text.
Text block on very thin paper, some leaves with poor impression.
Some edges of the plate visible in impression.
Product is used.
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