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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
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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
Footnotes
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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