Litterae Societas Iesu e Regno Sinarum annorum MDCX. & XI. by [Jesuit] Trigault, Nicolas - 1615

The third English/John Florio translated edition of Michel de Montaigne's Essays, and the first to contain the engraved architectural frontispiece (often lacking) by Martin Droeshout, the engraver who famously engraved Shakespeare's portrait frontispiece in the First Folio published in 1623; the table of contents listing all essays/headings by book; and the Index of "principal matters and personages in this book."
Collated complete. Folio (27.5 x 18cm), [xii], 631, [1], [12] pp., including 'To the Beholder of This Title' poem bound before B1, Montaigne, Michel de London: M[iles] Flesher, for Richard Royston, 1632. Contemporary sprinkled calf, later skillfully rebacked to preserve contemporary binding, but with later, possibly 18th century label, wearing. Rebinding possibly done by Henry Southeran's, one of the oldest operating bookdealers and binders founded in 1761. Small stamp on renewed end paper (and full page printed sale invoice on laid paper tipped in, undated) bearing the address of Sackville… Read More