BEAURIEU (Gaspard Guillard de). L'Élève de la... Lot 13

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.