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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. (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).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. [4], 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 plate mark 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 19th-century red morocco (Desan, p. 42). The volume bears 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.

Bound in red maroquin, the panels ruled and decorated with a large, gilt floral design in the center, their fore and inner edges are gilt. Spine with five raised bands, gilt decoration, and title. Marbled pastedown. All edges gilt. (2) ff., 469 (ie 496) pp., (30) ff. Extremely scarce second, revised edition. Just as rare as the first (1569) of Montaigne's first book, the French translation of Theologia Naturalis, the important source of natural theology, written by Raymond Sebond, the 15th-century Catalan theologian. Sebond's text was composed around 1435 in Latin, and it was first published in 1487. It declares that not merely the Bible, but also Nature is a Divine revelation, and holding a position against the scholastic antithesis, the concept that reason and faith, philosophy and theology are antithetical and irreconcilable. Montaigne made his translation of Sebon's text on his father's request however his personal interest in the book and his affiliation to its content is conspicuous not only through this corrected and revised second edition, but also the corresponding ideas exposed in his 1580 Essais, and particularly by the Essais' long and most recognised chapter "L'Apologie de Raymond Sebond" (Book II, chapter XII.), an eloquent expression of Christian scepticism, wherein Montaigne poses the famous question "What do I know?" (Que sçay-je? / Que sais-je?), which is the intrinsic motif of the entire work and also served as Montaigne personal motto. Albeit this edition is sometimes referred as a reprint of the editio princeps, Alain Brieux, a Parisian bookseller, reported in 1958 the discovery of Montaigne's own copy with 229 inserted corrections in Montaigne's hand, which were incorporated into this 1581 edition. Ref.: USTC 1693; FB 47582; Adams no. S 40 (Gourbin imprint) [Bibl.: Brieux, Alain: Autres Souvenirs de Montaigne. In: Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Vol. 20. Geneva: E. Droz, 1958. pp. 370-376.; Brush, Craig B.: The Apologie de Raimond Sebond. In: Montaigne and Bayle: Variations on the Theme of Skepticism.The Hague: MartinusNijhoff, 1966. pp. 62-120. Desan, Philippe: Montaigne. A Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 285-299.; Ramachandran, Ayesha: The Worldmakers. Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. pp. 86-94.] . Printed bookplate of P. F. Arminjon on front end pastedown. Ten leaves slightly over trimmed that has a minor effect on the initial or final letters of the printed marginal notes but no effect on their legibility. Overall a very well preserved and beautiful copy of this scarce volume. Bound in red maroquin, the panels ruled and decorated with a large, gilt floral design in the center, their fore and inner edges are gilt. Spine with five raised bands, gilt decoration, and title. Marbled pastedown. All edges gilt.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Tr s bon. LA PRECIEUSE EDITION ORIGINALE COMPLETE DES ESSAIS DE MONTAIGNE EDITEE PAR MARIE DE GOURNAY, ® FILLE SPIRITUELLE DE L AUTEUR. ELLE FIXE LE TEXTE DEFINITIF DE CE MONUMENT DE LA LITTERATURE DE LA RENAISSANCE. L dition originale, parue en 1580, poss dait les deux premiers Livres ; le troisi me Livre parut en 1588. Tchemerzine, IV, 876 et III, 460 ; Sayce, 7a ; Philippe Desan, Bibliotheca Desaniana, 21 ; Le Petit, 102-105 ; Picot, Catalogue du Baron J. de Rothschild, I, 141 ; Bulletin Morgand et Fatout, 8961 ; En Fran ais dans le texte, nø73. PRECIEUX EXEMPLAIRE AVANT LES CARTONS POSSEDANT LE FEUILLET D ERRATA ET BIEN COMPLET DE LA CELEBRE PREFACE DE MONTAIGNE ® C est icy un livre de bonne foi que l on ne rencontre que dans les exemplaires dit s par Abel L Angelier.

In-4°, 496pp, first leaf is an etched title, woodcut headpieces and initials. Bound in nineteenth-century dark blue morocco signed 'Alix', spine gold stamped in six compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, title engraving trimmed as is usual. Fresh copy. The first complete edition of Montaigne's 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'Angeier quarto, gives Montaigne's book a certain prestige" (Desan, p.42). The present copy is typical of surviving 1588 editions, almost all of which have been rebound in 19th-century morocco (Desan, p.42). 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.

Ferrara, Benedetto Mamarello, 1590. Small 8vo. Later half vellum with gilt title-label to spine. Marbbled paper over boards. A faint damp stain to the last few leaves, otherwise a nice and clean copy. Old ownership-signature to last leaf. Bookplate to inside of front board. Large woodcut device to title-page. Woodcut initials and headpieces at beginning. (8), 170, (5) pp. The very scarce first edition of the first translation into any language of any part of Montaigne's Essays, namely Naselli's monumental first Italian translation, which came to pave the way for later translations of the work, among them Florio's first English from 1603. Montaigne's magnum opus was published in 1580, and in 1588, the final edition appeared, constituting the definitive text of the work and that on which all later editions were based. With his seminal work, Montaigne not only created a novel genre of writing, he also founded modern scepticism and the revival of ancient scepticism, and he paved the way for the modern philosophy and thought presented by Bacon, Decartes and Newton. "Unlike anti-intellectuals like Erasmus, Montaigne developed his doubts through reasoning. Unlike his skeptical predecessors who presented mainly a series of reports on the variety of human opinions, Montaigne worked out his complete Pyrrhonism through a sequence of levels of doubt, culminating in some crucial philosophical difficulties. The occurrence of Montaigne's revitalization of the Pyrrhonism of Sextus Empiricus, coming at a time when the intellectual world of the 16th century was collapsing, made the "nouveau Pyrrhonisme" of Montaigne not the blind alley that historians like Copleston and Weber have portrayed, but one of the crucial forces in the formation of modern thought. It was also to be the womb of modern thought, in that it led to the attempt either to refute the new Pyrrhonism, or to find a way of living with it." (Popkin, vol. II, 1960, pp. 54-55). There are many important aspects of Montaigne's groundbreaking work, which has been subject of an uncountable number of scholars throughout centuries. But one aspect which seems to have been forgotten in recent times is one that is emphasized by Naselli's extremely important first ever translation of the work. As the Italian title will reveal, the work was also widely viewed - and intended - as a political council book. Naselli bases his translation on Montaigne's own final edition from 1588 and publishes it merely two years later, including 42 of 94 chapters of the first two books. His translation is the one closest in time to the original appearance of the work and is the only one published in Montaigne's own life-time. It is thus in a unique position to tell us about contemporary views on the work and its use. "One enormously important prose genre upon which Montaigne draws most heavily consists of political advice books for courtiers and princes that proliferated in great number and with great social and political impact in the late Renaissance. Montaigne's appropriation of the political counsel genre has gone largely unnoticed by contemporary scholars, and bringing it into focus has significant implications for our understanding of the "Essais". bringing it to the foreground allows us to challenge more robustly the common conclusion that Montaigne's unique project "is not a political work."Many in the first generation of Montaigne's reception appear to have seen the "Essais" principally as a contribution to the political contribution to the political counsel literature. For example, Girolamo Naselli's 1590 Italian translation of the "Essais is titled "Discorsi morali, politici e military", while John Florio follows Naselli's lead in the title of his 1603 English translation, "The Essayes or Morall, politike and militaire discourses". And when Francis Bacon enthusiastically adopts Montaigne's novel "Essai"-form for his own ends, he does so as a useful means of giving "Councels Civill and Morall", not simply musings personal and poetic." (Thompson, Montaigne and the Tolerance of Politics, p. 21). As is mentioned on the title-page, this first translation also contains another, long "questione". "In this deliberative discourse, very different in kind from anything a modern reader would associate with "Essais", and apparently composed soon after the winter 1576-7 Estates General of Blois, the author argues methodically and resolutely against those at the assembly who in a public "ragionamento" demonstrated the employment of foreigners in a republic to be universally undesirable, and who nearly succeeded in having this position passed into law." (Boutcher: The Scool of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, vol. 2, p. 136).

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. $25,000.

First edition in English, translated by John Florio. 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, is inestimable. "Florio's style is clearly visible throughout the translation. His extraordinary skill in the use of alliteration, his ability to embroider and amplify the French original through the addition of English synonyms, his sense of rhythm, his art of turning French proverbs and expressions into idiomatic English equivalents, and his experimentation with new-formed English words (such as 'conscientious', 'endeare', 'efface', 'facilitate') made his Montaigne one of the great translations of the Elizabethan age" (ODNB). "Montaigne startles the common reader at each fresh encounter, if only because he is unlike any preconception we bring to him. He can be interpreted as skeptic, humanist, Catholic, Stoic, even Epicurean His scope and capaciousness sometimes approach Shakespearean dimensions Montaigne's [is] the first personality ever put forward by a writer as the matter of his work. Walt Whitman and Norman Mailer are indirect descendants of Montaigne, even as Emerson and Nietzsche are his direct progeny He represents - not everyman but very nearly every man who has the desire, ability, and opportunity to think and to read" (Bloom, Western Canon, 147-51). "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" (PMM 95). "The unfolding of a mind of genius in dialogue with itself and with the world, a Renaissance humanist speaking to all humanity" (Hollier, New History of French Literature, 250). Langland to Wither 102; Luborsky & Ingram 18041; Pforzheimer 378; STC 18041. Folio (275 x 184 mm). Modern full calf to Jacobean style, spine compartments gilt, sides with oval centrepieces within gilt and blind frame, old gilt edges. Books 2 and 3 with separate dated title pages but continuous register; verses by Daniel and errata ( 1,2: "these 2 leaves are frequently lacking" - ESTC); complete with blank 2Q4 and 2 final errata leaves 3K5,6. Woodcut vignettes of altars on verso of first title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials, a few headpieces composed of printer's ornaments, woodcut tailpiece cartouche at the end of the first book; with the headline on A2v uncorrected ("The Epistle"), with the printed slip-cancel on B1r, correcting "towns" at line 25. Title leaf remargined at inner edge and restored in upper margin, the restoration costing the upper serif of the first letter on verso, four small stains to title leaf where old ink inscriptions spot-cleaned, associated stain in gutter of A2, a few minor marks elsewhere, paper generally clean and strong, a very good copy.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Tr s bon. Edition originale. 2 ouvrages en 4 volumes in-4 de : I/ (1) f. pour le portrait, (2) ff., XV pp., (4) ff., 363 pp., (6) ff., XVIII pp., (1) f. bl., (1) f., 95 pp. ; II/ 538 pp., (8) ff. de table.; III/ (1) f.,411 pp., (12) pp. de table ; IV/ (1) f. pour le portrait, (4) ff., LIV et 416 pp. Maroquin bleu nuit, triple filet or encadrant les plats, dos lisses richement orn s, pi ces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin rouge, double filet or sur les coupes, roulette int rieure dor e, tranches dor es. Reliure de l? poque. 289 X 230 mm. EXCEPTIONNELLE REUNION, EN TRES BELLE RELIURE HOMOGENE EN MAROQUIN DU TEMPS, DE L?EDITION ORIGINALE IN-4 DU VOYAGE DE MONTAIGNE ET DE LA PREMIERE EDITION COMPLETE DES ESSAIS. LES EDITIONS ANCIENNES DES ® Essais DE MONTAIGNE EN MAROQUIN DE L?EPOQUE ONT DE TOUT TEMPS ETE RECHERCHEES. SUPERBE ET PRECIEUX EXEMPLAIRE, GRAND DE MARGES (hauteur : 289 mm), SUR GRAND PAPIER, CONSERVE DANS SON MAROQUIN BLEU NUIT DE L?EPOQUE. L?exemplaire r pertori par Philippe Desan mesurait 283 mm de haut et l?exemplaire r pertori par Andr Potti e-Sperry : 285 mm. Tchemerzine ne cite que 3 exemplaires, tous reli s en veau ancien : ® B nard, 4000 frs ; Roussel, 1300 frs ; De Backer, 3650 fr. . EXCEPTIONNELLE REUNION DES ESSAIS ET DU JOURNAL DE MONTAIGNE CONSERVES DANS LEUR RELIURE HOMOGENE EN SUPERBE MAROQUIN BLEU NUIT DU TEMPS.

Relié. Première édition parisienne des Essais de Montaigne publiée du vivant de l'auteur (1587) et « troisième édition originale de la plus grande rareté »(Tchemerzine). "C'est la première édition des Essais avec une adresse parisienne. Elle corrige beaucoup de fautes présentes dans les deux premières impressions des Essais. C'est de loin l'édition la moins problématique puisqu'elle corrige la plupart des erreurs produites dans l'atelier de Simon Millanges" (Philippe Desan). "La plupart des exemplaires recensés à ce jour sont dans des reliures modernes, et tous les exemplaires connus dans une reliure de l'époque possèdent une page de titre soit remontée soit en fac-similé" (Philippe Desan) (Bibliotheca Desaniana Catalogue Montaigne paru aux Classiques Garnier en 2011) Notre exemplaire comporte une page de titre en fac-similé. Sinon il est conforme aux autres exemplaires : in-12 de 4 feuillets comportant la page de titre, au lecteur, liste des chapitres, puis 1075 pages, 2 feuillets blancs. Exemplaire très enviable en reliure d'époque, vélin rigide, sans défaut. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 10 volumes, 12° (140 x 75 mm). Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary French crimson morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet, flat spines directly lettered in two compartments, the remaining four with a fleuron surrounded by small pointillé tools, gilt turn-ins, blue marbled endpapers, blue silk markers, gilt edges. Bookplate of Admiral Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff. Very fine set. This 'joli édition' was based on the 1745 London edition edited by Pierre Coste. Brunet III, 1839.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. In-4 de 1 portrait, 4 ff.n.ch., LIV, 416 pp. ; veau fauve glacé, dos à nerfs, compartiments ornés de fleurons et fers d'angle, pièces d'armes dans les angles des plats (macle et chabot alternés), roulette intérieure, deux filets sur les coupes, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). LUXUEUSE ÉDITION, LA PREMIÈRE DANS LE FORMAT IN-4, PARUE L'ANNÉE DE L ORIGINALE. Elle est ornée en frontispice d'un portrait gravé par Saint-Aubin : cette reprise de la gravure de Nicolas Voyer (1771) permit de diffuser largement l'image d'un Montaigne « au chapeau ». Le manuscrit original du Journal du voyage en Italie, que son auteur ne destinait pas à la publication mais conservait à son seul usage, fut oublié pendant près de deux siècles. Il ne fut retrouvé dans un coffre au château de Montaigne, par l'abbé Prunis, qu'en 1770. L'éditeur parisien Le Jay confia la tâche de l'éditer à Anne-Gabriel Meunier de Querlon, gardien des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi, qui dédia le livre à Buffon. Quatre éditions virent le jour en 1774. La première fut imprimée en deux volumes in-12. Peu après parurent une édition in-quarto, puis une édition en trois volumes au format in-12. Une quatrième, enfin, vit le jour en deux volumes in-12, mais amputée du texte italien. Le Jay choisit Rome comme adresse fictive d'édition, sans doute pour souligner le caractère italien du journal. Complément du maître-livre de Montaigne, le Voyage est même « un essai plus vrai que les Essais » (Paul Faure, préface à l'édition de 1948). De plus, par un coup du destin, le manuscrit autographe ayant disparu peu de temps après sa découverte, l'édition de 1774 représente le seul texte « original » à la disposition des lecteurs. Le Journal du voyage en Italie, rédigé pour partie en français et pour partie en italien, a été tenu lors du voyage entrepris par Montaigne juste après qu'eut paru la première édition des Essais : dix-sept mois d'un périple au gré de l'humeur, du 22 juin 1580 au 30 novembre 1581, interrompu par la nomination de l'auteur comme maire de Bordeaux. Fuyant la routine d'une vie de gentilhomme campagnard, Montaigne s'ennuie du monde et de ses tracas. Aussi va-t-il, « par gambades », « promener sa philosophie » comme l'écrit joliment le préfacier, Meunier de Querlon. Le voyage devait nourrir le livre III des Essais. Une grande partie du Journal environ 30 % du texte a donc été rédigée directement en italien par Montaigne. Cette langue traitée de façon cavalière, à la fois expressive et savoureuse, ce style vif et heurté ont suscité de nombreux commentaires et analyses. BEL EXEMPLAIRE RELIE EN VEAU GLACE PORTANT LES PIECES D'ARMES DES ROHAN-CHABOT. Il a vraisemblablement fait partie de la bibliothèque de Guy-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1683-1760) ce même Chevalier de Rohan qui fit bastonner et embastiller Voltaire en 1726 , avant de passer dans celle de son fils, Louis-Antoine de Rohan-Chabot (1733-1807), correspondant de Madame du Barry et personnalité de l'Émigration. Les exemplaires du Journal du voyage de Montaigne en belle reliure du temps et dotés d'une provenance significative sont rares. Cachet anciennement gratté sur le titre, épidermures peu prononcées sur les plats, habile restauration à la coiffe supérieure. Références : Desan, nº 111 : « En accord avec le goût bibliophilique du XVIIIe siècle, le format in-4 est considéré comme le plus désirable ». Lacouture, Montaigne à cheval, 1996, pp. 193-225 : « L'érudit s'est fait philosophe, le retraité combattant. La déambulation cavalière à travers la Rhénanie, la Suisse, la Bavière, le Tyrol et les Italies aura contribué à accoucher le Montaigne qui va agir sur l'histoire de son temps »). J.-M. Chatelain, "Noms de pays : l'Italie de Michel de Montaigne", in Poètes, princes & collectionneurs. Mélanges offerts à Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 2011, pp. 351-366).

8°.- 19,8:13,5 cm. Titel, 3 Blatt, 1165 Seiten. Vollständig. Neuer brauner Lederband mit Rückenschild und Rückenvergoldung. Innen durchgehend gebräunt, vereinzelt mit kleinen Stockflecken. Titel aufgezogen. Zwischen den Seiten 50 und 68 mit ein paar wenigen alten An-/Unterstreichungen/ im Text. Seiten 1161-1165 mit kleinem Wurmloch im Text. Sonst gut erhalten und sauber. Die Essais entstanden in den Jahren von 1572 bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 1592. In zahlreichen Abschnitten beschreibt er unterschiedliche Objekte von ebenso unterschiedlichem Rang; diese reichen etwa von konfessionellen Streitfragen über die Medizin und Heilkunde zu grundlegenden Problemen menschlicher Erkenntnis. Themen wie das zwischenmenschliche Zusammenleben, Hexenprozesse und Aberglauben, aber auch Reiten und Pferde werden in kaleidoskopischer Vielfalt nebeneinander behandelt. Leitmotivische Gedanken ergeben sich erst auf den zweiten Blick. Die Essais verändern den Stil des bislang vorherrschenden Traktates.[.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of John Florio's tanslation, the first into English from French. Three parts in one volume with additional title pages for books two and three. Pages are 10 5/8 in. x 7 1/8 in. Bound with large portions of the front and rear leather from the original, or an early, binding laid down on a later leather rebinding. This old leather is decorated in a contemporary Cambridge-style blind-paneled calf, center panel tinted dark brown, with stamped decorations. Condition: Older leather is darkened and worn. More recent leather is fine, binding is tight and square. Early end-papers with a couple former owners' names. The title page has been professionally framed with paper to replace chipped edges, and remounted. The next two pages have outer edge repairs to the paper. The preliminary pages are darkened as are the final few pages. Occasional light toning near page edges. Water, or ink, stain along bottom edge of final 100 pages. No text is effected. Otherwise the paper is generally clean and strong; a very good, enjoyable copy of the first edition of a classic of the late Renaissance.

Etat : molto buono. 2 opere in un volume in-4 (mm.220x170), parte prima: pp. (12), 780. (4, due di ''elenco Libri stampati da M:Ginammi'', e 2 bianche); parte seconda: pp. 58, (2). Impresa tipografica della Speranza sui due titoli, capilettera silografici ornati e istoriati. Legatura coeva piena pergamena rigida, titolo oro al dorso. Prima traduzione integrale dei celebri ''Essays'' di Montaigne, completi della seconda parte. La prima edizione francese vide la luce nel 1580-1588, con ampliamenti nell'edizione postuma del 1595. L'unico precedente volgarizzamento (Ferrara, 1590) consisteva in una semplice cernita dell'opera; la presente versione, ancorché ascritta al Ginammi nel frontespizio, è in realtà parto della penna di Girolamo Naselli, che la dedica a Davide Spinelli. Fu uno dei capolavori della letteratura moralistica di ogni tempo, esposizione della filosofia scettica dell'autore. L'''Apologia'', dedicata a a Annibale Mariscotti, costituisce il 12° capitolo del secondo libro ed è una sorta di esposizione della filosofia scettica di Montaigne. Esemplare assai fresco e genuino. ''Seconda, rispetto alla prima parziale versione comparsa a Ferrara nel 1590 ad opera di Girolamo Naselli, quella di Girolamo Canini ha il pregio della completezza. Non è che il suo intervento risulti a prima vista evidente: chè i suoi Saggi. figurano ''trasportati dalla lingua francese nell'italiana per opera di Marco Ginammi''.; e così pure a proposito della versione, uscita separatamente l'anno dopo, dell'Apologie de Raymond Sebond. Ma in realtà il Ginammi non fu che il munifico tipografo, spinto più da esigenza di ''riputazione'' che dalla speranza di guadagno. Egli stesso avverte infatti che la traduzione si deve al Canini, ''soggetto di. straordinarie virtu'' (Dizionario Laterza). Cfr. ''Bulletin du Bibliophile 1984, pp.535-538: Premières éditions Italiennes des Essays.'' Graesse, IV, 580. Diz. Biogr. Italiani, vol. 55, pp.1-3 (su Ginammi). Michel-Michel, V, 189 (solo la Parte prima). Book.

8vo (104 x 152 mm). 3-480 (instead of 496) pp., lacking title and remaining 3 leaves of preliminaries, first leaf of text, and 8 leaves between p. "276" and "294". 17th century full calf with gilt spine and labels "Essais de Montaig" - "Tom I", leading edges gilt. Edges sprinkled blue. First edition of one of the most important works written and published in French in the 16th century. Incomplete copy of the first part only, lacking the first five leaves as well as the eight leaves comprising the 29 sonnets. - Montaigne's groundbreaking essays on an eclectic array of subjects - from cannibals to solitude, from sleep to sadness - constituted an entirely unique and unprecedented literary genre, and a philosophy of knowledge that was based on his own personal experience and observations, epitomizing 16th century enlightened scepticism. "The most elaborate essay, the 'Apologie de Raimond Sebonde', is second to no other modern writing in attacking fanaticism and pleading for tolerance" (PMM). - The publishing history of this work is complex, both for the rather careless printing of the first edition, and in large part because the changes to the text between editions were considerable: Montaigne's text was by no means static but constantly evolved under the eye of the author who "considered each new edition as the last". This first edition, printed by Millanges in the spring of 1580, is unsophisticated and rather hastily composed, as betrayed by the innumerable misprints, font and type inconsistencies, errors in page numbering and textual variants. This copy has G2 and Aa5 missigned as 2G and A5, while Aa2 is correctly signed thus (not as Aa; see Sayce & Maskell, p. 2), and the corrected states of C8 and O8 (ibid., p. 5, note 7), as well as the letters 'gsit' accidentally printed at the foot of Gg3 (ibid., p. 6, no. 9). The irregular spacing of lines on the page - occasionally very cramped - indicates composition by forme. - Copies of early editions of Montaigne's work are extremely rare. Fewer than 100 examples are estimated to exist in private and institutional collections worldwide, suggested by some to point to a small original print run of only 300 to 400 copies (Bibliotheca Desaniana, no. 8, 2011; Balsamo, p. 160). - Corners bumped, spine-ends chipped, hinges starting. Paper somewhat browned. - PMM 95. Sayce & Maskell 1. Tchemerzine IV, 870. Brunet III, 1835.

Etat : Fine. Louis Jou [Luis Felipe Vicente Jou i Senabre] (1881-1968) (illustrateur). ~ 3 volumes ~ Deux feuilles d'advertance par Albert Thibaudet, non cousus ~ Bois de Louis JOU, dont 3 portraits et 2 blasons couleurs, 121 bandeaux de caractère géométrisant, 109 lettrines anthropomorphes, 93 culs-de-lampe, 11 colophons à bordure, 5 signes de l'imprimeur ~ Texte établi par Albert Thibaudet et terminé de corriger par Jean Auzanet après le décès de celui-là. Impression à deux encres : titres, initiales, marginalia, fermaux et pieds-de-mouche en rouge orangé, ce couleur créé par Jou et que personne n'a su reproduire après lui. Oeuvre capitale de l'artiste catalan, l'Architecte du Livre dans les paroles d'André Suarès, disciple de personne, qui tout a réalisé lui-même n'aidé que par Guy Bideau, dans son atelier du Vieux-Colombier: dessin et fondage des caractères créés a cet effet (et gravés par Charles Malin), gravure des illustrations et lettrines, composition, encre, pressage, les étuis . L'OPERA PRIMA DU LIVRE AU XXe. SIÈCLE. Notre exemplaire le nº XXXIX, un des 30 (XVI à XLV) numérotés sur Japon à la forme (2ème papier après XV sur pur chine), suivis de 125 sur Guarro + 15 hors commerce ~ 3 volumes in-quarto, les feuillets reliés fil rouge (reliure d'attente), jaquettes rempliées + chemises de papier cristal dans des étuis-boîte d'un seul tenant s'ouvrant sur eux-mêmes, revêtus à papier marbré confectionné par l'Artiste ~ I: 7f+liv+[1]p+1f+327+[1]p+8f; II: 8f+453+[1]p+8f; III: 8f+321+[1]p+11f ~ 34x27x17cm. ~ Bel ensemble dans une condition exceptionnelle. Restauration au ruban de soie sur qq. angles intérieurs des étuis. Petit tampon exlibris sur le verso blanc du dernier feuillet. ~ Heavy item, circa 10 Kg. Extra postage costs may apply (please ask for quotation before ordering, clicking on the "Contact seller" button to be found above) ~ LANGUAGE: Français / Additional images available/// We accept PayPal & EU bank transfer in EUROS //.

Folio, [xii], 630 pp. (A-3I6, 3K3, missing final blank leaf 3K4); leaf A6 (pp.7/8) with portrait on verso bound as frontispiece; three parts published as one volume, individual title-pages with woodcut decorations to second and third parts; old half calf and marbled boards. Second edition in English of Montaigne's masterpiece in the important translation by John Florio, one of the great prose works of the Elizabethan period, used by Shakespeare as a source for several late works, most importantly The Tempest. First published in French in 1580, Montaigne's Essays first appeared in English, in Florio's translation, in 1603. William Hole's portrait, bound as frontispiece here, celebrates the translator rather than the author of the Essays, showing Florio as a handsome neatly bearded courtier. "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). The second edition contains the preliminary sonnet "Concerning the honor of bookes" which was at one time attributed to Shakespeare, though is more likely to have been by Samuel Daniel, who signs the poem before it in honour of Florio, "Sam. Daniel". Oddly, early ink annotations on this page claim "There are Six manuscripts and two Old Copys have it Sappy instead of Sam; which makes a great alteration in the Text" and "Sappy Daniel One of the greatest Poets in those Days: he writes in the Pindarick Stile: he read Homer in 5 days & translated Horace into Verse in 15 and became perfect Master of all ye Greek & Latin Classicks in 25. A Beautiful Progress". . Provenance: Early signatures on the title-page of Betty Gregson (Yorkshire, ?-1763, married Henry Chaytor in 1760) and Matthew Chaytor; later (there seems to have been a family connection) Sir Henry Heathcote (Admiral, 1777-1851, with his armorial bookplate as baronet). Edges of the title-page ragged and 1/4 inch of lower margin made good with blank paper, the following three leaves with some marginal wear, well clear of text; portrait leaf (normally at end of prelims) placed here as frontispiece and slightly worn at outer margin; spine of the binding rubbed but good.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Etat : Muy bien. [i.e.1616].- [Para pedidos desde fuera de España, por favor, consulte las condiciones de venta y envío, tipo B / For orders to be delivered outside Spain, please, let you see our sale and shipping terms, type B / Pour les commandes à livrer hors d'Espagne, s'il vous plait, voyez les conditions de vente et de livraison, type B].- // 8º (161x106mm.); [16], 1129 (i.e. 1087), [1] (blanca), [36] p. (errores de paginación, p. 76 numerada 34, 155 como 157, 189 como 289, 216 como 116, 255 como 225, 341 como 431, 543 como 5 3, 575 como 5 5, salto de 605 a 608, salto de 738 a 779, 792 como 892, 947 como 847, 1101 como 1001, ; sign.: áviij, A-ZZzviij, AAaaviij, BBbb2 (BBbiij signaturizada como Bbbiij); marca tipográfica en portada; capitales xilografiadas, adornos tipográficos, apostillas marginales.- // Encuadernación del s. XVII o XVIII en pergamino a la romana tomada de otra obra, aparentemente (por el cordón de las cabezadas) en s. XX. Papel levemente revenido, como todos los ejemplares de esta edición, sin anotaciones ni subrayados.- // Proc.: Tampón ovalado, s. XIX, en guarda delantera, 'E Bibliotheca Bottigeri'; exlibris manuscrito en portada , 'J. Geletiere'.- // Refs.: Sacey & Maxwell, 17d.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. 2ème Édition. Paris, Jean Camusat, rue Sainct Jacques, à la Toyson d'Or, 1635. Folio 24x36 plein veau brun, double filet d encadrement à froid sur les plats, dos à 6 nerfs orné, titraison dorée, tranches rouges ; frontispice, [40]-871-[23] p., [1]. Frontispice inédit, le premier à présenter les armes de Montaigne et sa devise « Que scay-je ». Collationné complet. Second tirage de l édition publiée par Mademoiselle de Gournay, « fille d alliance de Montaigne » d'après l'un des deux exemplaires de 1588 corrigés et annotés par l auteur. Notre exemplaire contient bien les 19 corrections portées à la plume par Mlle de Gournay elle-même (cf. par ex. p.18, « forte vaillance » corrigé en « haute vaillance »., auxquelles elle fait référence dans sa longue préface : "nous avons pris la peine de corriger la plupart des erreurs avec la plume, et recueillir en un Errata bien exact le reste de celles qui peuvent importer". C est la première édition où les citations traduites sont placées en regard du texte. Pour Brunet, "Cette édition, dédiée au cardinal de Richelieu, l'emporte peut-être sur celle de 1595, à cause des pièces qui y sont jointes, et parce qu'elle donne la traduction des citations ". Inscriptions de 1734 et 1740 en page de titre : cet exemplaire a vraisemblablement été donné par le notaire de Vendôme Duplessis à Jacques Gabriel Jamin de la Moynerie, conseiller procureur du roi à Château-du-Loir, qui plaçait chez lui une partie de ses avoirs en achat de rentes. Ex-libris aux armoiries de Félix-François le Royer d Artezet de la Sauvagère, colonel-ingénieur, directeur en chef du corps royal du génie et auteur d ouvrages sur l architecture antique, dont un Recueil d Antiquités dans les Gaules en 1770. Mors un peu fatigués mais reliure solide. Quelques cahiers un peu jaunis, peu de rousseurs dans l ensemble, quelques petits manques de papier en marge sans atteinte du texte sur une dizaine de pages, un impact en marge latérale sans atteinte du texte entre les p.286 et 315, 3 petits trous dans le texte p.691, texte lisible. Brunet, Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres, III, 1837. Tchemerzine, Éditions originales et rares XVe-XVIIIe siècles, VIII, 428. Sayce & Maskell, A Descriptive bibliography of Montaigne's Essais 1580-1700, n°25.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Etat : Muy bien. [Para pedidos desde fuera de España, por favor, consulte las condiciones de venta y envío, tipo A. / For orders to be delivered outside Spain, please, let you see our sale and shipping terms, type A. / Pour les commandes à livrer hors d'Espagne, s'il vous plait, voyez les conditions de vente et de livraison, type A].- // 8°, (164x105mm.); [16], 1129 (i.e. 1087), [1] (blanca), [36] p., [2] h. blancas (p. 498 numerada 488, 521 como 512, salto de 607 a 610, 679 como 663, salto de 738 a 779, 800 como 770, 837 como 873, 857 como 875, 926 como 629, 1050 como 1048, 1085 como 1083); sign.: ä8, A-Yy8, Aaaviii, Bbb-Hhhviii, Iii-QQq8, RRrviii, Sss-YYyviii, Aaaa-Bbbbviii, CCcc4 (Tttiiij signaturizada Tttiij; Vvviii-Vvviiij signaturizadas Tttiii-Tttiiij); portada grabada, frimada 'Edmundus Charpy fecit'; retrato grabado de Montaigne, sin firma; capitales xilografiadas y apostillas marginales. Diversos errores de paginación; CCcc3 y CCcc4, blancas.- // Encuadernación siglo XVII en plena piel, lomo decorado en panal florido dentro de filetes, con tejuelo rojo; planos con ligero gofrado seco; cantos dorados a rueda; cortes tintados. En la encuadernación se aprecian dos intervenciones muy discretas, la más antigua de finales del XIX o principios del XX, reencuadernando el ejemplar en su propia encuadernación y suturando algunas heridas de la piel y, la más reciente, cerrando una leve apertura del cajo delantero. Leve galería en portada, en el cartucho inferior, saturada. Grabado con la efigie de Montaigne encuadernado como segunda hoja en vez de octava. Pequeña remarginación antigua en margen superior de a2; pequeña rotura con pérdida de papel en margen inferior de QQq8; leve apósito antiguo en CCcc2, ligero rastro de humedad en borde de margen inferior entre pp. 945 y 1004, y entre pp. 1035 y 1090.- // Proc.: Sin datos.- // Refs.: Sacey & Maskell, 16a/18.- // Hermoso ejemplar de los 'Essais' perteneciente a la limpia impresión de Nicolas l'Oyselet, en Rouen en 1617 (Sacey & Maskell, 18), al que en algún momento (posiblemente a finales del s. XIX) le dispusieron como portada la de la edición de 1611, en la variante de Sacey & Maskell 16a, la única que presentaba la doble fecha de 1608 y 1611.

Rilegato. Etat : ottimo. BELLA EDIZIONE ORIGINALE IN-4 GRANDE, ASSAI RARA. In-4 grande, pp. [8], LIV, 416. Bella legatura in tutta pelle del tempo. Tchemerzine VIII, 445-6; D Ancona p. 665-8; Fossati-Bellani 387; Pine-Coffin 580, nota.

Cm. 29,5, pp. (8) liv, 416. Bel ritratto inciso in rame all'antiporta. Elegante legatura di poco posteriore in pieno vitello, dorso a nervi interamente ornato con ricchi fregi in oro e decorazioni policrome a copertura dei nervi. Titoli in oro su tassello in marocchino rosso. Piatti inquadrati da cornici dorate, dentelles interne e sguardie marmorizzate. Legatura firmata Bradel le Jeune (etichetta applicata alla sguardia). Solo qualche macchietta sparsa, limitata a 2/3 pagine, minimi segni d'uso alle cerniere (comunque assai solide). Esemplare complessivamente in ottimo stato di conservazione ed impreziosito da una legatura assai decorativa. Monogramma nobiliare inciso in luogo di ex libris. Edizione apparsa contemporaneamente ad altre tirature di formato minore. Le bibliografie concordano nel considerare la presente come l'originale. Celebre relazione del viaggio cinquecentesco intrapreso da Montaigne il cui manoscritto fu ritrovato e pubblicato solo 200 anni più tardi. Gran parte della trattazione è scritta (come d origine) in lingua italiana con la traduzione francese a fronte. Cfr. Tchemerzine viii, 445; D Ancona pp. 665 e Fossati-Bellani I, n. 387.

(Con un Discorso se il forastiero si deve admettere alla administratione della Republica) 8° (mm. 157 x 115) piena pergamena coeva, cc.nn. 4, num. 170, nn. 2. Marca tipografica incisa in legno al frontespizio, iniziali e fregi xilografici. Piccolo restauro al margine bianco inferiore del frontesp., con ultimo numero della data rifatto a mano, pochi antichi segni a penna, piccoli segni di tarlo al margine bianco interno delle cc. centrali, lieve e piccolo aloncino marginale, peraltro buon esemplare fresco. Prima e rara edizione italiana degli Essais, curata da Girolamo Naselli, contemporaneo di Montaigne. Questa pregiata traduzione, condotta sulla prima edizione (Bordeaux, 1580) è una delle prime traduzioni mai realizzate dei Saggi, precedente anche la prima inglese del 1603. Naselli, che sembra avesse notizia anche delle edizioni posteriori, quanto bastava per aggiungere nel frontespizio, il titolo di Governatore di Bordeaux agli altri di Montaigne che già figuravano nell'ediz. del 1580, traduce in tutto quarantadue saggi, esercitando inoltre una lieve censura sull'originale. Adams, M-1625.

Hardcover. Etat : 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). 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.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2°. (10), 631, (12) p. 20th century half calf over marbled boards, a nice binding. Binding fine, interior generally very good to fine, the first and last gatherings smudged. Library stamps to the edges, blind stamp to first four leaves. - Apart from the slight defects mentioned, a pleasing copy of the third edition. Rare.

Journal de voyage en Italie, par la Suisse et l'Allemagne en 1580 et 1581// FIRST EDITION // A Rome, & se trouve A Paris, Chez Le Jay, Libraire, rue Saint-Jacques, au Grand-Corneille. M. DCC. LXXIV, contemporary leather binding, spine with 5 raised bandswith the portrait of Montaigne (=frontispiece) original copper engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807), 4to, [4] l., LIV, 416 pages, joints a bit cracked, Hinges show traces of old repairs., marginal bookworm hole not affecting the text from page 55 to 108, marginal waterstains fom titlepage to 1page 6, but still a good, solid copy The manuscript was found by chance in a chest only posthumously in 1770. Thus the text was not published until 1774. Brunet III, 1841 // Graesse IV, 581 // Thieme-Becker, XXIX, 319 fr 2200 Buch.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Etat : Muy bien. [i.e. 1611].- [Para pedidos desde fuera de España, por favor, consulte las condiciones de venta y envío, tipo A. / For orders to be delivered outside Spain, please, let you see our sale and shipping terms, type A. / Pour les commandes à livrer hors d'Espagne, s'il vous plait, voyez les conditions de vente et de livraison, type A].- // 8°, (160x94mm.).- [12], [4 blancas], 891, [49] p.; sign.: à8, B-Ooo8 (à7-8 y Ooo7-8, blancas); adornos tipográficos en portada, frisos e iniciales.- // Encuadernación de época en plena piel, sin intervenciones, lomo de 4 nervios cuajado, con tejuelo y adornos dorados; cortes jaspeados. Dos puntas levemente abiertas. Un poco justo de margen lateral. Sin anotaciones, manchas ni subrayados.- // Proc.: Sin datos.- // Refs.: Brunet, V, 10.- // Montaigne acometió la que sería su primera publicación, esta traducción de la obra de Sebunde, por consejo de su padre, publicándola en 1569. La traducción sería editada de nuevo en Paris, 1581, en Rouen, 1603, y en Tournon, 1605, antes de esta de 1611 y de las posteriores. En lo que hace a la impresión de esta edición parisina de 1611, fue compartida, al menos, por la viuda de Guillemot y por Toussaints du Vray, ya que existen ejemplares de ambos pies de imprenta, con sus respectivas marcas tipográficas en portada. Raimundo Sebunde escribio su 'Teología natural' en romance, con giros latinos, a principios del s. XV, con el proposito de aunar física y religión, defendiendo que la lectura del libro de la naturaleza conduce al hombre a conocerse a sí mismo y a conocer la obra de Dios. Así, sostendrá que el libro de la naturaleza ?le instruye a cada uno en lo que está naturalmente obligado hacia Dios y hacia el próximo? y que, como no puede falsificarse, es la propia naturaleza la que nos enseña que el hombre hace bien en preocuparse de cuidar su cuerpo, de considerar sus necesidades y de aceptar el libre arbitrio (que define como ?la plus grande, la plus singuliere & et la plus parfaite chose qui soit en nature?). Como la disposición de las cosas en la naturaleza es obra de Dios, seguir las indicaciones de la naturaleza nos aleja del vicio y del error y nos enseña nuestras obligaciónes con Él. Sobre el texto de Sebunde hay que señalar, sin embargo, que el derrotero del catolicismo tras el Concilio de Trento hizo que el prefacio acabase incluido, ya en 1595, en el Índice expurgatorio, porque resultaba una defensa de que la lectura directa y personal de la Sagrada Escritura permitía un acceso sin intermediarios bien interpretado a la verdad revelada, convirtiéndose así en una concepción protestante avant la lettre. La tranquilidad con la que Sebunde va hilando en su 'Teología natural', paulatinamente, una vida serena donde caben el disfrute de la amistad, el libre arbitrio, la atención a las necesidades mundanas o la conversación, por ejemplo, fueron sin duda un ejemplo para el talante y el universo de las preocupaciones de Montaigne, tal como las dejó reflejadas en sus 'Essais'.

1 fort vol. in-folio, veau écaille glacé, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin vert, encadrement d'un triple filet doré sur les pats, double filet doré sur les coupes, tranches marbrées. Reliure du XVIIIe s.discrètement restaurée. Ex-libris héraldique au contreplat de D. de Gourgue maître des requêtes. Titre-Frontispice hors-texte gravé en taille-douce comprenant le portrait de Montaigne, titre en rouge et noir, (16) ff. (titre et front. compris), 840 pp., (19) ff. de table. Rousseurs. Réimpression de l'édition de 1635 des Essais, la dernière revue et établie par Marie de Gournay. Elle en reproduit également le beau frontispice gravé, mais la table des matières a été améliorée par l'imprimeur Henri Estienne, qui en avait obtenu le privilège pour sept ans mais le rétrocéda à Augustin Courbé et Pierre Le Petit. Ces deux derniers partagèrent encore avec d'autres libraires et l'on trouve cette édition à l'adresse de dix d'entre eux. Cette édition comprend un avis de l'imprimeur Henri Estienne qui vante les qualités de cette édition, destinée selon lui à supplanter toutes les précédentes. En effet, cette édition reprend la dernière version établie par Marie de Gournay en 1635 avec la traduction française des citations placées en marge. mais si elle contient effectivement des corrections judicieuses, elle comprend également les différentes modernisations de langage que Mllle de Gournay avait introduites dans l'édition de 1625. Bel exemplaire. Tchemerzine-Scheler IV, 902; Sayce & Maskell, 30h.

*** Belle édition illustrée d'un portrait de Montaigne en frontispice gravé par Peeter Clouwet. Elle est la réimpression de celle de Paris, Journel, 1659 avec une table pour les 3 volumes. Imprimée par Foppens, "elle est digne par sa belle exécution de prendre place dans la collection elzévirienne. Ainsi du reste en jugent les amateurs qui paient fort cher ces trois volumes, lorsqu'ils sont bien conservés et grands de marges". Willems, Les Elzevier n°1982. Les trois volumes sont à l'adresse d'Anthoine Michiels. Pieters n° 246 ("Les beaux exemplaires sont chers et recherchés"). Sayce et Maskell 33, 1659. Tchemerzine VIII, 437. Brunet, III. 1838 : "Bien imprimée et recherchée des amateurs". Très bel exemplaire, élégamment relié au XVIIIe siècle par Bradel, avec son étiquette "Bradel, le jeune, rue d'Ecosse, quartier Ste-Geneviève, à Paris." Pierre-Jean Bradel était le relieur attitré du marquis de Paulmy entre 1775 et 1787 et l'inventeur vers 1775 de la reliure "à la Bradel". Ex libris Saint-Senoch. *** 3 volumes in-12 de (52), 468 / (4), 708 / (4), 510, (78) pp. Maroquin vert, dos orné, roulettes d'encadrement sur les plats, tranches dorées. (Reliure du XVIIIe, Bradel.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Fine copy bound in green morroco by Pierre-Jean Bradel, with his engraved ticket on the verso of the front endleaf. - -.