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MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE)
Journal du voyage... en Italie, par la Suisse & l'Allemagne, en 1580 & 1581, FIRST EDITION, Rome, sold in Paris by Le Jay, 1774

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE)

Journal du voyage... en Italie, par la Suisse & l'Allemagne, en 1580 & 1581, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Montaigne, a handful of ink spots, contemporary speckled polished calf, gilt arms on covers, joints cracked, rubbed, 4to, Rome, sold in Paris by Le Jay, 1774

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The manuscript of Montaigne's journal languished in the Château de Montaigne after his death in 1592, before being rediscovered in 1770 by l'abbé Joseph Prunis.

Provenance: Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1720-1794), 9th Earl of Lincoln, gilt arms on covers; Kenneth Rapoport, bookplate.

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