Author: DE CHATEAUBRIANT; J H B SAINT-PIERRE; SOLOMON GESSNER
Title: Atala; Indian Cottage; Idyls and First Navigator
Description: London, Walker and Edwards. 1817. Hardcover. Original paper covered boards worn and marked, missing spine, small heraldic plate to front paste-down, two engravings by A W Warren with small contemporary ink name and date to one corner, gatherings loosening, many pages unopened, good. Collection of four works loosely grouped around nature and the search for meaning in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Good.

Keywords: LOUISIANA, JACQUES-HENRI BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE, CULTURAL PRIMITIVISM, PHILOSOPHY, PASTORALS, GESSNER


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