Henri BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE

First collected edition, partly first edition, of the works of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, published in Paris by Méquignon-Marvis in 1818, four years after the author’s death. Twelve octavo volumes, printed by L.-T. Cellot.

The illustration comprises a frontispiece portrait of Bernardin, drawn by Girodet-Trioson and engraved by Frédéric Lignon, together with 26 hors-texte plates after Girodet, Desenne, Lafitte, Moreau le Jeune, Prud’hon, Vernet and Isabey; these include a folding map of the Atlantic hemisphere and several botanical plates. As is often the case with this edition, the engravings have been bound in a somewhat irregular order, several suites having their own...

Rare group of six fascicules, all in the original edition.

Bradel-style binding in green mottled boards, smooth unlettered spine, printed title label mounted at the centre of the upper cover; modern binding.

Not recorded by Polak. Apparently no copy located in the CCFr.

A stain at the head of the title page.

This curious compilation, bearing almost no identifying information, appears to be particularly rare.

It contains:

- 1. A notice to mariners concerning the change in the lighting of the lighthouse in the Bay of the Somme, scheduled for 25 Pluviôse, Year IX [14 February 1801].

- 2. An instruction on filters for purifying water, signed by the...