Lot n° 75
Estimation :
150 - 200
EUR
BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE. Paul et Virginie et la chaumière - Lot 75
BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE. Paul et Virginie et la chaumière indienne. Paris, L. Curmer, 49 rue Richelieu, 1838. 1 vol. in-8. Full blue chagrin, romantic decoration on covers, ornate spine, gilt title, gilt edges.
Complete with in-text woodcut vignettes, colored map, 29 plates on chine appliqué and 7 portraits also on chine appliqué.
Also complete with captioned serpents.
Some foxing.
Pleasantly bound.
Brivois calls this "the pearl of 19th-century illustrated books".
Brivois, 388 - 389.
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