MONTAIGNE (Michel de). Les Essais. Paris, la Société, 1725. 3 volumes in-4, edition illustrated with a portrait-frontispiece of the author engraved by Chereau le jeune. Second edition of Montaigne by Pierre Coste, after that of 1724, completed by Gueullette and Jamet aîné and considered one of the finest editions of the Essais. Bound in full contemporary leather, 5-ribbed spine, red morocco title page, brown morocco endpaper. Ex-libris Louis Auguste d'Affry, captain in the Swiss Guards. (binding rubbed, leather badly cracked, gilding missing from spine, three caps missing). Expert : Mr. Nicolas Asvisio