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Michel de MONTAIGNE - The Essays. New edition. Book one [-third]. Enriched and increased in the margins of the names of the authors who are quoted there. With the versions of the Greek, Latin, & Italian passages. Paris, Christophle Journel, 1659. 3 books bound in 5 volumes in-12, 140 x 75 mm, supple bottle-green morocco, gilt fillet framing the boards, old rose silk lining, smooth flowered spine, gilt edges (spines uniformly faded, some cracks, small lack at 1 corner and 1 upper margin of T. 4 as well as at the upper board of T. 5). [68], 314; 315-556, [24]; [4], 502; 503-827, [47]; [4], 610, [34] pp. Title-frontispiece by N. de Larmessin repeated, only the mention of the book number varies. Provenance: ex-libris Léopold Double; ex-libris Jules Lemaître. Short margins, paper browned in places.