LOT 3047
4th December 2024
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LOT 3047
MONTAIGNE, Michel. Essais… avec les Notes de tous les Commentateurs. Paris: Lefèvre, 1823. 5 vols., 8vo (203 x 125mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Spotting and browning throughout.) Contemporary maroon full calf, armorial gilt to upper covers (heavily sunned spines and lower covers, all covers scuffed and rubbed). Provenance: General Lambert Loveday (bookplates to front pastedowns); William Paton Ker, Scottish literary scholar (bookplate to front-free endpaper of vol. 1); Frederic Thesiger, Lieutenant General (gift-plate inscribed on a front-free endpaper). – And a further ten literary volumes (including ‘Oeuvres de Molière’, 5 vols., 1823, 8vo, and James Stephen’s ‘Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography’, 2 vols., 1849, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Frederic Thesiger, Lieutenant General, Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1916-21(15).
Estimate: £70 – £100
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