Jacques-Bernardin-Henri de Saint-Pierre - Études de la nature - 1804

A fascinating five-volume set enriched with ten intaglio plates outside the text, including a frontispiece and a folding plate. This major edition in which the author develops a vision of nature based on the observation of natural phenomena, philosophical reflection, and a deeply moral and religious conception of the universe -

The whole seeks to show that living beings, landscapes, climates, plants, animals, and human societies are not arranged by chance, but that they maintain among themselves relations and correspondences that would testify to an overall order of creation -

Saint-Pierre is particularly interested in the mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to their environment, in the distribution of species, in the forms of plants, in the behaviors of animals and in the relations that unite the different components of the natural world -

Jacques-Bernardin-Henri de Saint-Pierre - Études de la nature - 1804 - Tome I, II, III, IV et V - Crapelet & Deterville -
j, 748, [1] pp. ; 479, [1] pp. ; 503 pp. ; 440, [1] pp. ; 418, [1] Pages.

Good condition of the bindings, volumes in their full aubergine morocco with green marbling, worn from use, some minor defects on covers and spine (spine browned), head caps, corners and joints worn, marbled edges, smooth spine adorned, gold fillets on the cut edges, gilded titles and tomaisons on red morocco pieces, gold fillets and roulettes on the covers -

Good interior condition, browning, small corner loss to engraving 10 without affecting the drawing, volumes enriched with ten intaglio plates outside the text including a frontispiece and a folding plate, the fourth volume contains Paul et Virginie (pages 73-240), marbled endpapers in fair condition, stamp M. FAVEYRIAL, a pleasant set -

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