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BEAURIEU (Gaspard Guillard de). L'Élève de la nature. New ed - Lot 78
BEAURIEU (Gaspard Guillard de). L'Élève de la nature. New edition. Paris, s.n., L'An IV de la République. 3 volumes in one large in-16, basane racinée, smooth spine decorated, red title page, speckled edges (Binding of the period).
Edition with 3 unsigned copper-engraved frontispiece figures.
Dedicated to the inhabitants of Virginia, it contains at the end of volume III two Lettres à l'auteur des Éphémérides du Citoyen [Dupont de Nemours], sur un pays très-florissant où il n'y a pas de villes (pp. 171-196).
Criticism of society written under cover of the memoirs of a man raised in a cage until adolescence and discovering nature and the world much later.
A fine copy.
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