L'AMI DE LA NATURE
by GIRARD, JOSEPH FRANÇOIS HENRI DE
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
McMinnville, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris: [Printed by Didot l'aîné for] Chez Buisson, 1787. Second Edition. 159 x 92 mm. (6 1/4 x 3 5/8"). 106, [4] pp.
Extremely pretty contemporary dark green morocco, gilt, covers with plain double-rule and garland border as well as oblique inward-facing fleurons at corners, flat spine divided into compartments by pentaglyph and metope roll, classical urn centerpieces, red morocco label, gilt turn-ins, endpapers printed with rows of gilt stars and dots, all edges gilt. Front pastedown with bookplate of "F. Raisin / Genevens. / Advoc." ◆Spine just faintly and evenly sunned, minor stains to endpapers from binder's glue, one opening with vague brown spots (possibly from a pressed botanical specimen?), but A VERY FINE COPY, the binding lustrous and unworn, the text clean, fresh, and bright, and the margins more than generous.
This attractively bound paean to Nature praises the joys of the countryside and the relief it provides from the tumult of the world. One of a very few works by the little-known Marseilles civil servant Joseph François Henri de Girard, it enjoyed considerable popularity at its release; our second edition appeared in the same year as the first. Reflecting the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the work found an appreciative audience in the tense years leading up to the French Revolution, when the world became especially turbulent. Previous owner Frédéric Raisin (1851-1923) was a Geneva attorney, judge, and bibliophile who also wrote and translated poetry. The binding is elegantly restrained in its Neoclassical design, as well as remarkably well preserved..
Extremely pretty contemporary dark green morocco, gilt, covers with plain double-rule and garland border as well as oblique inward-facing fleurons at corners, flat spine divided into compartments by pentaglyph and metope roll, classical urn centerpieces, red morocco label, gilt turn-ins, endpapers printed with rows of gilt stars and dots, all edges gilt. Front pastedown with bookplate of "F. Raisin / Genevens. / Advoc." ◆Spine just faintly and evenly sunned, minor stains to endpapers from binder's glue, one opening with vague brown spots (possibly from a pressed botanical specimen?), but A VERY FINE COPY, the binding lustrous and unworn, the text clean, fresh, and bright, and the margins more than generous.
This attractively bound paean to Nature praises the joys of the countryside and the relief it provides from the tumult of the world. One of a very few works by the little-known Marseilles civil servant Joseph François Henri de Girard, it enjoyed considerable popularity at its release; our second edition appeared in the same year as the first. Reflecting the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the work found an appreciative audience in the tense years leading up to the French Revolution, when the world became especially turbulent. Previous owner Frédéric Raisin (1851-1923) was a Geneva attorney, judge, and bibliophile who also wrote and translated poetry. The binding is elegantly restrained in its Neoclassical design, as well as remarkably well preserved..
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ST12699c
- Title
- L'AMI DE LA NATURE
- Author
- GIRARD, JOSEPH FRANÇOIS HENRI DE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- [Printed by Didot l'aîné for] Chez Buisson
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1787
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ABAA-WINTER-2024
Terms of Sale
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
- Does the default shipping charge seem high? If so, please contact us by email at info@pirages.com for a shipping charge tailored to your order and location. You may also call us at (800) 962-6666 in the US or (503) 472-0476 outside the US, Monday through Friday between the hours of 10 am and 4 pm US Pacific time or leave us a message.
- For all orders outside the US and Canada, please contact us for shipping charges before completing your order.
- If you complete your order before you receive a shipping quote, we will need to contact you to get additional funding to cover the cost of shipping before we can ship your items.
- Except in the cases of items priced at $100 or less (for which we charge a small handling fee), we wish only to pass along actual carrier charges to our customers. The constraints of this website force us to assume that each purchase is both heavier and further away than average, so we would be pleased to adjust the charges to reflect actual weights and locations.
About the Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Biblio member since 2006
McMinnville, Oregon
About Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books an Manuscripts was established in 1978 on a ping pong table in a basement in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the beginning, its founder was willing to sell a range of material, but over the years, the business has gravitated toward historical artifacts that are physically attractive in some way--illuminated material, fine bindings, books printed on vellum, fore-edge paintings, beautiful typography and paper, impressive illustration. Today, the company still sells a wide range of things, from (scruffy) ninth century leaves to biblical material from all periods to Wing and STC imprints to modern private press books to artists' bindings. While we are forgiving about condition when something is of considerable rarity, we always try to obtain the most attractive copies possible of whatever we offer for sale.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...