Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Vœux d'un Solitaire, to be used a - Lot 334

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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Vœux d'un Solitaire, to be used a - Lot 334
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Vœux d'un Solitaire, to be used as a sequel to Etudes de la Nature; by Jacques-Bernardin-Henri de Saint-Pierre. In Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Monsieur; Chez P.F. Diddot, Méquignon l'aîné, 1789. In-12 of (4)-XXX-218 pp., mabeled basane, smooth decorated spine, green morocco title-piece, marbled edges (contemporary binding). Edition different from the separate edition, published in the year of the original. Les Voeux d'un Solitaire and the Suite des Voeux d'un Solitaire were intended to compose the fifth volume of Etudes de la Nature; published together in 1789, Didot made a separate edition of the first part, the same year. "Vows for the king, the clergy, the nobility, the people, the nation. The exercise of all professions should be allowed to gentlemen. Necessity to abolish slavery, to grant the natives the rights of active citizenship, and to increase by all means the colonial population" (INED). Escoffier, 34; INED, 443.
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