SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de (1737-1814). Paul et Virginie suivi de La Chaumière Indienne . Paris: Curmer, 1838.
SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de (1737-1814). Paul et Virginie suivi de La Chaumière Indienne . Paris: Curmer, 1838. 8 o (260 x 168 mm). Half-title. Wood-engraved frontispiece, steel-engraved map and 7 portraits; and 28 woodcuts, the last printed on chine and mounted. (Some scattered pale foxing.) 19th-century blue half morocco gilt, top edge gilt (some wear to joints). Provenance : purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 10 March 1959. ONE OF THE 19TH-CENTURY'S FINEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. This copy is accompanied by the original woodcut block (129 x 99 mm), for the illustrated facing p. 91, "Virginie solgne un pauvre malade." Carteret III, p. 534ff; Vicaire VII, 42. (2)
SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de (1737-1814). Paul et Virginie suivi de La Chaumière Indienne . Paris: Curmer, 1838.
SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de (1737-1814). Paul et Virginie suivi de La Chaumière Indienne . Paris: Curmer, 1838. 8 o (260 x 168 mm). Half-title. Wood-engraved frontispiece, steel-engraved map and 7 portraits; and 28 woodcuts, the last printed on chine and mounted. (Some scattered pale foxing.) 19th-century blue half morocco gilt, top edge gilt (some wear to joints). Provenance : purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 10 March 1959. ONE OF THE 19TH-CENTURY'S FINEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. This copy is accompanied by the original woodcut block (129 x 99 mm), for the illustrated facing p. 91, "Virginie solgne un pauvre malade." Carteret III, p. 534ff; Vicaire VII, 42. (2)
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