Definitive edition with some parts in first edition as revised and expanded bearing a statement of thirteenth edition. Bradel binding in full speckled paper, smooth spine, burgundy shagreen title-label, covers preserved, binding signed P. Goy and C. Vilaine. Covers stained, soiled and with two small marginal lacks filled on the second cover. Some occasional foxing. Precious signed autograph inscription from Ernest Renan to the painter and journalist Edouard Bertin in the upper margin of the first cover: "A M. Ed. Bertin, souvenir affectueux" ["To Mr. Ed. Bertin, fond remembrance"].