Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Henri. Les Etudes de la nature. B - Lot 19

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Henri. Les Etudes de la nature. Baume-les-Dames, Victor Simon, no date [ca. 1840]. 4 vol. in-18 of 392 pp.; 398 pp.; 400 pp.; 282 pp. Half green basane, smooth spine decorated, brown morocco t.p. (Binding of the period). Rare publication by a printer-publisher from Baume-les-Dames. Victor SIMON, born on August 17, 1803 in Eternoz (Doubs) to a farmer father, was initially a merchant's clerk and lived in Besançon, before joining the ARNOUD printing house, where he bought the business in 1830 from the widow ARNOUD, for whom he had worked, and obtained a licence to print letters on February 24, 1830. In 1832, he obtained a lithographer's licence. He ceased his activity in 1847. Some foxing; a charming copy.