Saint pierre jacques henri bernardin de

1818 · 25268 — Paris: Chez Méquigon-Marvis. Libtraire rue de L'École de Médecine 1818. First Collected edition. Mises en ordre et Précédées de la Vie de l'Auteur par L. Aimé-Martin. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in volume I and numerous other engraved plates throughout. 12 vols. 8vo 8-1/4 height; widith 1-14 inches but varies slightly; 14 inches in total length. Full contemporary brown sprinkled calf gilt spine with contrasing leather spine labels. Spines uniformly darkened a little small chip from one label otherwise a fine clean attractive set. First Collected edition. Mises en ordre et Précédées de la Vie de l'Auteur par L. Aimé-Martin. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in volume I and numerous other engraved plates throughout. 12 vols. 8vo 8-1/4 height; widith 1-14 inches but varies slightly; 14 inches in total length. Chiefly remembered today for his Paul et Virginie Barnardin de Saint-Pierre was also a naturalist who wrote extensively on the harmony and order of nature. Paul et Virginie in fact appears in Volume IV of his Etudes de la Nature. This is the first collected edition of his works published four years after his death in 1814. Brunet V 57 Chez Méquigon-Marvis. Libtraire, rue de L'École de Médecine unknown