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Lot of 3 Books of Essays: Emerson, Bacon, Montaigne

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Book Title: Essays, First and Second Series

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: The Franklin Library, PA

Date: 1981

Limited edition

Part of the "100 Greatest Books of All Time" series

Brown leather binding with gilt design

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a 19th century American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement, a philosophical movement that believed that while people are inherently good in nature, society and its institutions ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual.

Book Title: Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Illustrator: Gonzalo Fonseca

Publisher: The Franklin Library, PA

Date: 1980

Limited edition

Part of the "100 Greatest Books of All Time" series

Black leather binding with gilt design

Michel de Montaigne was a 16th century philosopher during the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a genry of literature. He utilized his intellectual and philosophical insight along with casual anecdotes to form is unique and innovative essays.

Book Title: Essays, Advancement of Learning, New Atlantis

Author: Sir Francis Bacon

Publisher: The Franklin Library, PA

Date: 1982

Limited edition

Part of the "100 Greatest Books of All Time" series

Black leather binding with gilt design

Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. Even today, he has remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method.

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