Essais
by MONTAIGNE, Michel de
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
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1771 Essays of Montaigne French Renaissance Philosophy Humanism Coste French 10v
First published in 1580, the Essays of Michel de Montaigne were a collection of essays and writings on a variety of topics and content. Montaigne was rather decisive in his rhetoric and used various Ancient Greek, Latin, and Italian texts as examples and references, such as Lucretius and Plutarch quotations. Montaigne himself stated that the goal of his essays was to describe man with 'utter frankness and honesty.' According to the scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller,
"the writers of the period were keenly aware of the miseries and ills of our earthly existence."
Montaigne sought to break man down into his basic features, which, at the time, was extreme volatility. He wrote on marriage being an absolute necessity for raising children, but he also quoted, in the 'Essays,' that "Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out".
This 1771 French edition was edited by Pierre Coste.
Item number: #21721
Price: $750
MONTAIGNE, Michel de
Essais
Londres: chez Jean Nourse & Vaillant, 1771.
Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages; 10 volumes
o Each tome individually paged
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~5.75in X 3.25in (14.5cm x 8.5cm)
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21721
- Title
- Essais
- Author
- MONTAIGNE, Michel de
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jean Nourse & Vaillant
- Place of Publication
- Londres
- Date Published
- 1771
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1771 Essays of Montaigne French Renaissance Philosophy Humanism Coste French 10v, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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