MONTAIGNE (Michel de).

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MONTAIGNE (Michel de).
Testing. Paris, Jean Piot, 1657. In-folio, marbled basane, spine decorated, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding). Last folio edition of Montaigne's works, reproducing the one given by Mademoiselle de Gournay in 1635. Beautiful title-frontispiece engraved on copper, including the portrait in medallion of Montaigne placed in an architectural frame. Handwritten ex-libris and stamp of the period on the first cover. Some pencil annotations. Wax stains pp. 700-701 altering a few words of the text, wetness and freckles. The last page containing the end of the privilege is missing. A few restorations to the binding (caps, corners and jaws), the guards are missing.
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