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MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE.
Versuche.
[48], 863, [1]; xxiii, [1], 958;
xxviii, [2], 680, [102] pages, including engraved portrait of the author. 8vo, 200x121 mm,
contemporary
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2
calf, spines worn, ends chipped, lettering pieces off, cover corners worn
through; contents toned with scattered foxing and minor stains, contemporary owner’s
armorial stamp on titles.
Leipzig: heirs of Friedrich Lankisch, 1753-54
[300/500]
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN
of Montaigne’s Essais, translated by Peter Coste.
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MONTFAUCON, BERNARD
DE.
Palaeographia Graeca; sive, De ortu
et progressu literarum Graecarum.
11
engraved plates on 10 leaves, including 6
double-page; numerous full-page and text
illustrations. [20], xxix, [1], 574 pages,
including engraved allegorical frontispiece.
Folio, 397x260 mm, contemporary vellum
boards, rebacked; scattered minor marginal
spotting or foxing, occasional pencil mar-
ginalia, early owner’s notes on front flyleaf
facing frontispiece. 19th-century book-
plates of Samuel Farman Jarvis, D.D., and
Frederic Huidekoper; perforated stamp of
Meadville Theological School in lower
outer corner of title.
Paris: Louis Guerin et al., 1708
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
.
“Palaeography acquired its
name with the publication in 1708 of
Palaeographia Graeca . . . a book that dealt so
comprehensively with the handwriting and other
characteristics of Greek manuscripts that it
remained the leading authority on the subject for almost two centuries” (Bischoff). Pages 441-509
reprint the Greek text, together with a Latin translation, of the 1701 account by Ioannis Komnenos
of the monasteries of Mount Athos and their libraries. Bischoff, Latin Palaeography, page 1.
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