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442 - Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de.
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Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de. – Complete Works… A new edition, revised, corrected and expanded by L. Aimé-Martin. Paris, P. Dupont, 1826. 12 volumes in-8, bound in red half-shagreen, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, author’s name, titles and volume numbers in gilt – Scattered foxing – Vol. 1, [2 ff.], 267 pp. (essay on the life and works of B. de St-P., 237 pp. (Journey to the Île-de-France), [1f.]; Vol. 2, [2 ff.], 160 pp. (Journey to Île-de-France, with a pagination error: 429–460 instead of 129–160), pp. 161–336 (observations on Holland, Prussia, Poland, Russia, hieroglyphic characters, notes and analytical tables); Vol. 3, [2 ff.], XIX (publisher’s notice), 456 pp. (Studies of Nature), [1 f. table]; Vol. 4, [2 ff.], 454 pp. (Studies of Nature); Vol. 5, [2 ff.], 418 pp. (Studies of Nature); Vol. 6, [2 ff.], 353 pp. (Paul and Virginie, The Indian Cottage, The Coffee House at Surat, A Journey to Silesia, Eulogy... of my friend, The Travels of Codrus, The Old Polish Peasant), [1 folio table of contents]; Vol. 7, [2 folios], 419 pp. (Arcadia, The Amazon...), [1 folio table of contents]; Vol. 8, [2 folios], XXXIX pp. (Dedication by M. de St Pierre to the Duchess of Angoulême, preface by L. Aimé-Martin), 344 pp. (Harmonies of Nature); Vol. 9, [2 ff.], 402 pp. (Harmonies of Nature); Vol. 10, [2 ff.], 413 pp. (Harmonies of Nature); Vol. 11, [2 ff.], 466 pp. (Vows of a Solitary Man, Theory of the Universe, Treatise on the Tides), [1 f., table of contents]; Vol. 12, [2 ff.], 579 pp. (miscellany), [1 f., table]. Illustrated with a portrait of the author by Girodet, engraved by Lignon, a fold-out map of the Atlantic hemisphere (Richard Wahl), 15 engravings h-t (after Desenne, Moreau the Younger, Prudhon, Vernet, Isabey) and 9 pll. h-t of flora after Turpin, making a total of 26 pll. h-t. Volume 1 is complete with the 7 pages of tables (dimensions of the ship Le Marquis de Castries with the nautical observations from its voyage in 1768).
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