77/1730 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, J.H. Études de la Nature. Paris, Deterville, 1804, new ed., 5 vols., 10 (fold.) engr. plates (incl. frontisp.), 1 diagram, contemp. unif. gilt calf w. 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces.

- All vols. first blank w. owner's stamp and entry.

= Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is best known for his 1787 novel Paul et Virginie. He was elected to the Institut de France in 1795, and in 1803 to the Académie Française. The friendship with Jean-Jacques Rousseau did much to mould the views expressed in Bernardins Études de la nature. To the third edition of Études (1788) he appended Paul et Virginie. Bernardin was one of the first to celebrate cultural primitivism, which became one of the central ideas of the Romantic movement.