BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE (Jacques-Henri). Paul et Virginie. Paris, de l'imprimerie de Monsieur [Pierre-François Didot jeune], 1789. In-18, first separate edition, first published in the fourth volume of Études de la Nature, in 1788. Illustrated with 4 hors-texte figures, including 3 after Moreau le jeune and one after Joseph Vernet, engraved by De Longueil and Halbou. Copy on Essone wove paper. Bound in full contemporary red morocco, boards framed with triple gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated, all edges gilt. (binding rubbed and soiled, some very light foxing, one page of the foreword detached). Expert : Mr Nicolas Asvisio - nicolas.asvisio@gmail.com - 06 47 79 88 52