Paris Editions Pierre Charron (Coll. "Les géants") 1972 135 pages in-8. 1972. relié. 135 pages. In-8 (217x163 mm) 135 pages. Livre relié Simili-Cuir sous jaquette illustrée. Belle iconographie en noir et en couleurs. Très bon état. Poids : 470 gr
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A Paris, Hector Bossange, 1827. 4 vol. au format pt in-12 (174 x 103 mm) de 1 frontispice gravé n.fol., xii- 4 12 pp. ; 2 ff. n.fol., 390 pp. et 1 f. n.fol. ; 2 ff. n.fol. et 390 pp. ; 2 ff. n.fol. et 387 pp. Reliures uniformes de l'époque de pleine basane glacée et marbrée blonde, filet doré et dentelle dorée encadrant les plats, dos lisses ornés de doubles filets dorés, doubles filets dentelés dorés, roulettes dorées, larges fleurons romantiques dorés, titre doré, tomaison dorée, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches jaspées.
Ensemble complet des quatre volumes le constituant ; ici revêtus de délicates reliures du temps. "Lecteur, je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre": c'est ce surprenant aveu de subjectivité qui ouvre l'un des textes les plus modernes de la littérature française, quoique l'un des plus anciens. À la mort de son ami LaBoétie, Montaigne décide en effet de prendre la plume pour perpétuer leurs discussions si fécondes. Sur ce mode autobiographique, tous les sujets seront abordés, de l'amitié à l'éducation, de la philosophie à la lecture, de la religion à la mort des hommes. En s'observant lui-même, Montaigne fait ainsi le tour de l'homme, proposant une réflexion essentielle sur sa place dans le monde et sur le champ d'action de la pensée humaine. Au siècle de Rabelais, des poètes de la Pléiade et de l'humanisme européen, l'oeuvre de Montaigne reste une météorite inclassable, entre écriture personnelle et monument philosophique. Oeuvre d'un homme engagé dans son temps, les Essais allaient fonder toute une tradition d'écriture à la française, de Pascal à Malraux, de Rousseau à Camus.'' Angles élimés. Deux coiffes arasées. Légers frottements pouvant affecter les plats. Un mors fendillé ; sans conséquence. Quelques feuillets oxydés et claires rousseurs ou tâches dans les corps d'ouvrages. Petite cerne principalement concentrée en marge des feuillets liminaires d'un des volumes. Du reste, belle condition.
Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles - Jouaust 1873 - 1875, 220x150mm, frontispice, reliure d’époque demi-basane avec auteur, titre, tomaison, filets et fleurons dorés au dos. Plats papier marbré avec filet doré. Gardes papier marbré. Tranche supérieure dorée. Couvertures conservées. Dos insolé, autrement bel exemplaire. Edition complète de cette impression sur papier vergé in-8°
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Ferrara, Benedetto Mamarello, 1590. Small 8vo. Later half vellum with gilt title-label to spine. Marbbled paper over boards. A faint damp stain to the last few leaves, otherwise a nice and clean copy. Old ownership-signature to last leaf. Bookplate to inside of front board. Large woodcut device to title-page. Woodcut initials and headpieces at beginning. (8), 170, (5) pp.
The very scarce first edition of the first translation into any language of any part of Montaigne's Essays, namely Naselli's monumental first Italian translation, which came to pave the way for later translations of the work, among them Florio's first English from 1603. Montaigne's magnum opus was published in 1580, and in 1588, the final edition appeared, constituting the definitive text of the work and that on which all later editions were based. With his seminal work, Montaigne not only created a novel genre of writing, he also founded modern scepticism and the revival of ancient scepticism, and he paved the way for the modern philosophy and thought presented by Bacon, Decartes and Newton. ""Unlike anti-intellectuals like Erasmus, Montaigne developed his doubts through reasoning. Unlike his skeptical predecessors who presented mainly a series of reports on the variety of human opinions, Montaigne worked out his complete Pyrrhonism through a sequence of levels of doubt, culminating in some crucial philosophical difficulties... The occurrence of Montaigne's revitalization of the Pyrrhonism of Sextus Empiricus, coming at a time when the intellectual world of the 16th century was collapsing, made the ""nouveau Pyrrhonisme"" of Montaigne not the blind alley that historians like Copleston and Weber have portrayed, but one of the crucial forces in the formation of modern thought... It was also to be the womb of modern thought, in that it led to the attempt either to refute the new Pyrrhonism, or to find a way of living with it."" (Popkin, vol. II, 1960, pp. 54-55). There are many important aspects of Montaigne's groundbreaking work, which has been subject of an uncountable number of scholars throughout centuries. But one aspect which seems to have been forgotten in recent times is one that is emphasized by Naselli's extremely important first ever translation of the work. As the Italian title will reveal, the work was also widely viewed - and intended - as a political council book. Naselli bases his translation on Montaigne's own final edition from 1588 and publishes it merely two years later, including 42 of 94 chapters of the first two books. His translation is the one closest in time to the original appearance of the work and is the only one published in Montaigne's own life-time. It is thus in a unique position to tell us about contemporary views on the work and its use. ""One enormously important prose genre upon which Montaigne draws most heavily consists of political advice books for courtiers and princes that proliferated in great number and with great social and political impact in the late Renaissance. Montaigne's appropriation of the political counsel genre has gone largely unnoticed by contemporary scholars, and bringing it into focus has significant implications for our understanding of the ""Essais""... bringing it to the foreground allows us to challenge more robustly the common conclusion that Montaigne's unique project ""is not a political work.""Many in the first generation of Montaigne's reception appear to have seen the ""Essais"" principally as a contribution to the political contribution to the political counsel literature. For example, Girolamo Naselli's 1590 Italian translation of the ""Essais is titled ""Discorsi morali, politici e military"", while John Florio follows Naselli's lead in the title of his 1603 English translation, ""The Essayes or Morall, politike and militaire discourses"". And when Francis Bacon enthusiastically adopts Montaigne's novel ""Essai""-form for his own ends, he does so as a useful means of giving ""Councels Civill and Morall"", not simply musings personal and poetic."" (Thompson, Montaigne and the Tolerance of Politics, p. 21). As is mentioned on the title-page, this first translation also contains another, long ""questione"". ""In this deliberative discourse, very different in kind from anything a modern reader would associate with ""Essais"", and apparently composed soon after the winter 1576-7 Estates General of Blois, the author argues methodically and resolutely against those at the assembly who in a public ""ragionamento"" demonstrated the employment of foreigners in a republic to be universally undesirable, and who nearly succeeded in having this position passed into law."" (Boutcher: The Scool of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, vol. 2, p. 136).
Paris, PUF, Presses Universitaires de France 1978, 215x135mm, LXXV - 1386pages, broché. Très bel exemplaire.
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Paris, Aux Editions de la Chronique des Lettres Françaises 1927 - 1928 - 1929 - 1930, 180x110mm, reliure cartonage illustré et remplié. Bel exemplaire sur papier vergé teinté d’Arches, filigrané au titre de la collection et numéroté n.° 176 / 2000.
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