MONTAIGNE (Michel de). The Essays. Paris, Veuve Dominique Salis, 1608. In-8, supple vellum with covers, laces (Binding of the period). Uncommon edition, printed in small type, decorated with a burin-engraved title-frontispiece by Edme Charpy and a portrait by Thomas de Leu; accompanied by a quatrain attributed to Pierre de Brach. The edition, shared between five Parisian booksellers, follows the text of the Essays published by Abel L'Angelier, thus passing from the booksellers of the Palais to the booksellers of the University. Small cracks in the vellum on the covers, glue reinforcements on the spine, slight wetness on the first seven leaves and on book X, laces attached.