Michel de MONTAIGNE
Les essais
Jean Servières • Chez Jean-François Bastien|à Paris 1793|12.5 x 20.3 cm|3 volumes reliés
New edition embellished with a medallion portrait of Montaigne on the title-page, engraved by Noël Pruneau. Reprint of the edition issued by Bastien in 1783, which was limited to 500 copies and quickly sold out.
Contemporary full glazed and speckled brown calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with four floral tools and various roll-tooled ornaments. Black wax lettering and volume labels. Triple fillet border on the boards. A few scattered foxing spots.
Fine copy in a high-quality contemporary binding. Small fragment lacking at the head of the upper joint of volume I. Headcap of volume II restored, with the beginnings of a split to the upper joint. Some rubbing, particularly along the...
€850