1677 Essays of Michel de Montaigne France Renaissance Philosophy Humanism RARE
“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 1677 first edition of Montaigne was published in Paris by Sercy and contains each essay including:
- ‘On Drunkenness’
- ‘Of Recompenses of Honor’
- ‘The Arms of the Parthians’
- ‘All Things Have Their Season’
- ‘Of Anger’
- ‘Of Education of children’
- ‘Of Quick or Slow Speech’
- ‘Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers’
1677 Essays of Michel de Montaigne France Renaissance Philosophy Humanism RARE
“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 1677 first edition of Montaigne was published in Paris by Sercy and contains each essay including:
- ‘On Drunkenness’
- ‘Of Recompenses of Honor’
- ‘The Arms of the Parthians’
- ‘All Things Have Their Season’
- ‘Of Anger’
- ‘Of Education of children’
- ‘Of Quick or Slow Speech’
- ‘Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers’
Item number: #23335
Price: $550
MONTAIGNE, Michel de
L’esprit de Essais de Michel, seigneur de Montaigne
A Paris: Chez Charles de Sercy, 1677.
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- Collation: Complete with all pages
- [20], 539, [1]
- Provenance: Handwritten – [Monsieur Couderc, procureur du roy 1731]
- Language: French
- Binding: Leather; tight and secure
- Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)
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23335
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Philosophy
Authors
MONTAIGNE, Michel de
Printing Date
17th Century
Language
French
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Leather
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Collation
Complete
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