(1617). MONTAIGNE (Michel de). LES ESSAIS. - Lot 433

(1617). MONTAIGNE (Michel de). LES ESSAIS. Rouen, chez Jean Osmont, 1617, de l'imprimerie de Nicolas L'Oyselet le 2 janvier 1617. Fort volume in-8 of [16]-1087 (mal chiffr.1129)-1bl.-[36] pages, velin rigide à recouvrement (contemporary binding). New edition enriched with annotations in the margins, corrected and increased by a third over the previous printings. It contains an extensive table of remarkable names and subjects, plus the author's life extracted from his own writings. Rare reprint of the Paris edition of 1608 and 1611, shared between several booksellers in Rouen. The frontispiece title is engraved by Edme Charpy and the unsigned portrait of Montaigne after Thomas de Leu. A good copy (Tchémerzine IV, 889).