1759 ENGLISH ed Essays of Michel de Montaigne French Renaissance Philosophy Humanism

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

― Michel de Montaigne, Essays



First published in 1580, the Essays of Michel de Montaigne were a collection of essays and writings on a variety of topics and content. Montaigne was rather decisive in his rhetoric and used various Ancient Greek, Latin, and Italian texts as examples and references, such as Lucretius and Plutarch quotations. Montaigne himself stated that the goal of his essays was to describe man with ‘utter frankness and honesty.’ According to the scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller,

"the writers of the period were keenly aware of the miseries and ills of our earthly existence". Montaigne sought to break man down into his basic features, which, at the time, was extreme volatility. He wrote on marriage being an absolute necessity for raising children, but he also quoted, in the ‘Essays,’ that “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out."

This 1759 English edition was translated by Peter Coste, published in three volumes.

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MONTAIGNE, Michel de

The essays : of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, translated into English. The seventh edition, with very considerable amendments and improvements, from the most accurate and elegant French edition of Peter Coste. In three volumes.

London : Printed for S. and E. Ballard, J. Clarke, D. Browne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, J. Pote, C. Bathurst, B. Barker, T. Payne, T. Waller, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Longman, P. Davey and B. Law, C. Corbet, and P. Brindley, M. DCC. LIX. [1759]. Seventh edition.

Details:

•Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes

oVol. 1 – [28], 441 (i.e. 414), [26]

oVol. 2 – [4], 608, [36]

oVol. 3 – [4], 468, [28]

•Language: English

•Binding: Leather; tight & secure

oVol. 1 – Front board attached only by rope cords

oVol. 2 – Front and back boards detached by present

oVol. 3 – Front board detached but present

•Size: ~8in X 5.25in (20.5cm x 13.5cm)

•Rare with no other example for sale worldwide

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