Life And Letters Of Montaigne

LIPSIUS, Justus. Epistolarum selectarum centuria prima (- quinta); Epistolarum selectarum centuria singularis ad Italos & Hispanos ..., ad Germanos & Gallos ...; ad Belgas (centuria prima-tertia); Epistolica institutio ... editio ultima. 11 parts in 1 vol., all with separate titles. 1605 (i.e. 1601-07) Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum

Printer's device on titles (repeated). 4 leaves, 213 (1) pp., 1 leaf; 4 leaves, 108 pp., 2 leaves; 6 leaves, 83 pp., 2 leaves; 6 leaves, 112 pp., 4 leaves; 4 leaves, 92 pp., 2 leaves; 4 leaves, 79 pp., 4 leaves, 102 pp., 1 blank; 4 leaves, 99 pp.; 4 leaves, 118 pp., 1 blank; 23 pp. 4to. Contemp. vellum (small repair to top of spine). From the collection of Hendrik D. L. Vervliet. Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1605 (i.e. 1601-07). Collected letters of the Belgian humanist and classical scholar Justus Lipsius or Joost Lips (1547-1606), one of the most learned men of his days (Montaigne), founding father of Neostoicism. His correspondence, of great significance for the history of the intellectual life of the time, was from the start conceived as a work of art. Among his correspondents are such famous contemporaries as Montaigne, Isaac Casaubon, Henri Estienne, Joseph Scaliger, Paulus Manutius, Ortelius, Hugo Grotius and many more, about 700 in all. The work is divided into five books, and Lipsius saw to the publication of his letters himself, three "centuries" were published during his life, a fourth and fifth were added posthumously by Jan Woverus. - Heraldic bookplate, crowned monogram stamp on titles. A very nice copy apart from copious underlinings and some marginalia in an old hand, somewhat browned throughout. - Bibliographie Lipsienne (1886) vol. I, p. 373-380; 315; 323; 341-342; vol. II, p. 23; Cf. Gerlo, Alois and Hendrik Vervliet, "Inventaire de la correspondance de Juste Lipse 1564-1606". Anvers, Ed. scientifiques Erasme, 1968. HUMANISM ;

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Montaigne. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE. Translated by Charles Cotton. With Some Account of the Life of Montaigne, Notes, and a Translation of All the Letters Known to Be Extant. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. In Three Volumes. Reeves and Turner, London: 1877. 1877 ; fester Einband / hard cover

Three Volumes. Engraved frontis. Top edge gold. Title pages printed in red and black. XLib. Blind XLib stamp on title pages. 8vo. Original half leather binding. Boards and spines detached. Worthy of re-binding. FRENG 3 Hardcover

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Penguin 60s - 60 Volume Set: Paretsky, Sara; edgar Allan Poe; Miss Read; Jean Rhys; Damon Runyon; Saki ( H H Munro ); Will Self; Muriel Spark; Robert Louis Stevenson; Paul theroux ; Georges Simenon: Penguin 60s - 60 Volume Set: Taste of Life; Pit and Pendulum; Village Christmas; Let Them Call it Jazz; Snatching of Bookie Bob; Secret Sin of Septimus Brope; Scale; Death of a Nobody; Portobello Road; Pavilion on Links; Down the Yangtze; Etc, London: Penguin 60s, 1995, 1st edition, 1st Printing for All ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0140951792
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-----------60 volumes, small paperbacks, about 4.25 x 5.5 inches, all are Near Fine unread copies, all in uniform format, all housed in a PENGUIN 60s slipcase which is Very Good+ with some rubbing to the black on the box, this set contains: God's Dice by Martin Amis; The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen; Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce; from Le Pigeonnier by Dirk Bogarde; Killing Lizards by William Boyd; His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z Brite; Ten Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino; Summer by Albert Camus; First and Last by Truman Capote; Goldfish by Raymond Chandler; The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov; Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl; I'll be with you in the Squeezing of a Lemon by Elizabeth David; The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor; The Dreaming Child by Isak Dinesen ( Karen Blixen ); The Man with the Twisted Lip by Arthur Conan Doyle; Racing Classics by Dick Francis; Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud; Prophet - Madman - Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran; Ada,'s Navel by Stephen Jay Gould; Five Letters from the Eastern Empire by Alasdair Gray; Under the Garden by Graham Greene; Seven Yorkshire Tales by James Herriot; Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith; The Haunter Doll's House -with The Body Snatcher and The Rose Garden by M R James and Robert Louis Stevenson; Baa Baa Black Sheep by Rudyard Kipling; A Long Night at Abu Simbel by Penelope Lively; The Escape by Katherine Mansfield; Bon Voyage Mr President by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Angel by Patrick McGrath; Bartleby by Herman Melville; Gunner Milligan 954024 by Spike Milligan; Four Essays by Michel de Montaigne; from The Four Corners by Jan Morris; Rumpole and the Younger Generation by John Mortimer; Tales from Malgudi by R K Narayan; A Model by Anais Nin; The Genius by Frank O'Connor; Pages from a Scullion's Diary by George Orwell; Sex and Violence or Nature and Art by Camille Paglia; A Taste of Life by Sara Paretsky; The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe; Village Christmas by Miss Read; Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys; The Snatching of Bookie Bob by Damon Runyon; The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope by Saki; Scale by Will Self; Death of a Nobody by Georges Simenon; The Portobello Road by Muriel Spark; The Pavilion on the Links by Robert Louis Stevenson; Down the Yangtze by Paul Theroux; Matilda's England by William Trevor; Ram Chander's Story by Mark Tully; Friends from Philadelphia by John Updike; Why I Live at the P.o> by Eudora Welty; Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton; The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde; Killing the Angel in the House by Virginai Woolf, ---a scarce set, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo First Edition Soft Cover; First Edition

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LERY, Jean. Living among the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil: an account ranking among the masterpieces of early modern ethnography Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur. Qua describitur authoris navigatio, quae'que in mari vidit memoriae prodenda: Villagagnonis in America gesta: Brasiliensium victus & mores, a nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguae dialogo: animalia eriam, arbores, arque herbae, reliquaque singularia & nobis penitus incognita. Secunda editio. Geneva, Heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594.
Rare second edition in Latin with some slight alterations of this very important, successful and beautifully illustrated work on Brazil by the protestant minister Jean Lery (1534-1611). In fact it is the third Latin edition, as the account was incorporated in the first edition of Th. De Bry's <I>Collectio peregrinationum in Indiam occidentalem</I> (Frankfurt 1592, with reprints in 1605 and 1630), edited by De Bry after the first Latin edition printed by Eustache Vignon in 1586.Originally published in French in 1578 under the title <I>Histoire d'un voyage en la terre de Bresil, autrement dite Amerique</I> (with further editions in 1580, 1585, 1599, 1600, 1611, etc.), the work was soon translated in Latin (1586), Dutch (1597), German (1794; reprinted in 1967 (and 1980) with the title <I>Unter Menschenfresser in Brasilien</I> !), and English (1611; also included in <I>Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes</I> (1625), a collection of travel narratives modelled on Hakluyt's <I>Principal Navigations</I>; a new English translation by J. Whatley was published in 1992).The present Latin edition contains passages that were suppressed in the original French edition, making this edition more interesting and valuable than the original French edition (Sabin).Born in 1534 in Margelle (Bourgogne), Jean de Lery's life changed radically when he decided in 1556 to accompany a group of Protestant (Huguenot)ministers and faithful to Brazil under the protection of Admiral Caspard de Coligny (1519-1572), a relative of Louise de Coligny, wife of William of Orange (William the Silent, first Stadholder of the newly established Dutch Republic), and the leading patron for the failed French colony of Fort Caroline in Spanish Florida lead by Jean Ribault in 1562. We know little of Lery's life before this choice, but it seems unlikely that he was from an important family or that he received an extensive education. In Geneva, the heartland of the Calvinist church, he was possibly working as a shoemaker and studying theology. Lery left for Brazil with thirteen others in November 1556, heading for the colony on an island in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, founded the year before by Vice-Admiral Nicolas Durand, Chevalier de Villegagnon who intended to assemble men of all religious creeds in this colony in free America. Villegagnon had studied with Calvin at the University of Paris and in 1556 he wrote a letter to Calvin - here printed in the Preface of Lery's book -, asking him to send colonists and pastors of the Protestant faith who wished to emigrate to Brasil. Although Villegagnon, a Catholic, had promised the Protestants religious freedom, he quickly began to contest their beliefs and persecute them. After eight months, fearing for their lives, Lery and his comrades managed to escape from the Coligny Fort and took shelter in a small trading post in Tupi territory and lived there with the Tupinamba Indians of the region. Their return home, in an unseaworthy vessel, became a harrowing voyage. These experiences were the origin of Lery's <I>Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique</I>. The book<I> </I>attempted to provide French readers with an accurate description of Brasil and its native sympathetic but shocking cannibalistic population, including a description of the exotic plants and animals. The author gives among other things also musical notes to show the intonation of the Indian songs (Caraibs) which belong to the first Brazilian musical documents known. In chapter XX he published a dialogue between a Frenchman and a Tupi Indian in French (here Latin) and the Tupi language, which is a document of great linguistic value. <B><I>Jean de Lery's account of a year spent living among the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil ranks among the masterpieces of early modern ethnography. The influence of Lery's book has extended from the sixteenth-century essayist Michel de Montaigne (his </I></B><B>Des cannibales</B><B><I>) to the twentieth-century anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who arrived in Brazil with a copy of Lery in his pocket and who would later refer to the book as "the breviary of the ethnographer"</I></B>.<B><I></I></B>The <I>History </I> was published some twenty years later, by which point the brutality and inhumanity Lery had witnessed in strife-torn France far outweighed anything he had observed among the Tupinamba. Though Lery is at once more observant and more sympathetic than most European travelers of his age, his biases are clear and pervasive. As a Calvinist missionary, he sees the Tupinamba above all as potential converts to his faith. In the course of his account, he swings repeatedly between pessimism on this point (as when he suspects them of Satanism), and sudden optimism (as when he learns that they have a tradition of the Flood). Lery also felt forced to publish his version of events in response to the 1575 publication of the <I>Cosmographie universelle</I> of Andre Thevet, a Catholic observer who had left Brazil before Lery's arrival. Thevet had blamed the Protestants for the failure of Villegagnon's colony, conquered by the Portuguese in 1560. Through his book Lery defended the Protestants and blamed for his part Villegagnon and his aides for the colony's failure. The plates are most probably designed by Lery himself and are very faithful ethnographic documents. The folding plate (p. 178/9), which is often missing, represents the battle of the Tououpinambaults with the Margaiats.
Good copy with the ownership's entry of J. L(?)otter; apart from three latin motto's his name on the first fly-leaf: "J. L(?)otter fügen / ist / Mein genügen", and "Jure haered, me possidet J. L(?)otter".- (Some wornholes in binding, stamps removed from title-page and some text pages).
Sabin 40154; Borba de Moraes, p. 468-73, esp. p. 471, col. 2; Rodrigues1399, note; JCB I, p. 334; J.Whatley, 'Impression and Imitation: Jean de Lery's Brazil voyage', in: <I>Modern Language Studies</I>, 19 (1989), p. 15-25; id., translation in English with commentary and introduction (1992); M.R. Mayeux, <I>Journal de bord de Jean de Lery en la terre de bresil, 1557</I> (Paris 1957).

8vo. Contemporary vellum with lines ruled in blind along the edges, corner pieces and centre piece stamped in black on both sides, front cover with the initials of the owner ("G S V A") and date ("1600") stamped in black, decorated ribbed spine with title written in ink at the top, blue painted edges. Seven full-page and one folding woodcut plates (the folding plate is often lacking), and numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces and decorated initial letters; printed in roman, italics, Greek and 2 sorts of musical notation. (58), 340, (15) pp.

[SW: 16th Century; Mission; Discovery & Exploration; Protestantism; Brazil; Travel]

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