[Rarebooks] fa: MONTAIGNE - ESSAIS DE MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 1818 - 5 vols. in Period Calf

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, March 20. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain

Essais de Michel de Montaigne. Nouvelle edition. Paris: chez Lefèvre, 1818. First edition thus. Five volumes (complete), thick 8vo (23.5 cm), in full period calf decorated in blind and gilt, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Bindings with occasional modest rubbing, wear to the extremities, two or three joints starting to crack at the top but all the boards are secure; portrait frontispiece (if  called for) is present, but detached, with browning to the edges; contents with scattered mostly light foxing, a few stray small spots and stains, otherwise generally very clean and bright, all volumes fir