BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE (Jacques Henri). Paul et Virginie. Paris, de l'imprimerie de Monsieur, 1789. In-12, first separate edition, first published in Etudes de la natures in 1788, illustrated with 4 copper-engraved hors-texte figures after Moreau le Jeune and Vernet by Girardet, Halbou and Longueil. Copy on Essonne wove paper. Bound in full contemporary red morocco, the boards with double filleting and central framing of straight and curved fillets forming a median oval, scrolls at the spandrels, smooth spine richly decorated on a rippled background, dark blue morocco linings with roulette framing of straight and twisted fillets and friezes, pink silk moire linings, all edges gilt, in the taste of Bozérian's bindings. Provenance: Elvire Choureau library. (handwritten inscription on the flyleaf, slight foxing). Expert: Mr. Nicolas Asvisio