Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Études de la nature
Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, chez Jean-Pierre Didot le jeune & Méquignon l'ainé, 1786.
Pagination:
(2) ff., 623 pp., 1 fold-out plate - II: (2) ff., 631 pp.
and 3 fold-out plates - III: (2) ff., 574 pp.
Size 4 by 6 3/4"
Very good condition, minor wear
Text in French

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737, in Le Havre – 21 January 1814, in Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist.
He is best known for his 1788 novel Paul et Virginie, now largely forgotten, but in the 19th century a very popular children's book

"The Études de La Nature revealed in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre a strength of talent and genius that one would not have suspected from him. It was, from a moral and literary point of view, a new concept which was reminiscent of Rousseau's principles and eloquence: the same independence of thought, the same taste for the paradoxical, the same stylistic drive, the same strength of persuasion." (Michaud).



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