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“THE UNFOLDING OF A MIND OF GENIUS IN DIALOGUE WITH ITSELF”

MONTAIGNE. Essayes Written in French. London, 1613.

Second edition in English of Montaigne’s seminal masterpiece, with the important Elizabethan translation of John Florio used by Shakespeare as a source for The Tempest (circa 1611), a work profoundly influenced by Lucretius, who is quoted almost a hundred times in the work, a splendid folio volume in contemporary calf boards. $16,000.

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"THE GREAT MASTER OF LIFE"

MONTAIGNE, Michel de. Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne. London, 1908. Three volumes.

Limited edition, one of 1150 copies of the seminal John Florio translation of Montaigne's Essayes—its influence on English writers and philosophers of the time, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Hobbes and Locke, can hardly be overestimated—with frontispiece portraits, handsomely bound. $2600.

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