Oeuvres

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait after Girodet-Trioson, a map of the Atlantic hemisphere, and 6 steel engravings on strong paper by Corbuld in the second volume. Notes by the author and Aimé-Martin (Léfèvre Edition).
Contemporary full glazed calf binding in marine blue. Smooth spine decorated with a large romantic rocaille tool in vertical format, gilt title and volume number. Large decorative blind-stamped plate with Restoration motifs on the covers, with framing fillet. Interior frieze. Gilt edges. Fresh overall, with crisp white paper but some pale scattered foxing.
Very handsome copy, in superb condition.
Studies of Nature, with the fourteenth study containing Paul and Virginie, The Indian Cottage, and Acadia; Journey to Silesia, The Death of Socrates.