MONTAIGNE. LES ESSAIS donnez sur les éditions les plus ancie - Lot 147

MONTAIGNE. LES ESSAIS donnez sur les éditions les plus anciennes et les plus correctes... by Pierre Coste. Nouvelle édition, plus ample et plus correcte que les dernières de Londres et de Paris. Genève, M. Bousquet et comp, 1727. 5 volumes in-12, brown calf, ribbed spine (period binding). Good edition given by P. Coste, augmented by La Boétie's sonnets, his discourse on voluntary servitude and Mademoiselle de Gournay's preface. The spines have been beautifully rebound, one of them darker. Ex libris with a crowned O. Also included: - GRUN (A). THE PUBLIC LIFE OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE. A biographical study. Paris, Amyot, 1855. In-8, contemporary half basane. Wet stamp of the René Mallein library, Lyon. SET OF 6 VOLUMES.