Title: Etudes de la nature. Par Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint Pierre. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée. Tome premier 
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of two volumes in 4to. f. [1] (blank), [1] (plates), p. [i], xvi, 500, f. [1] (blank), [4] (folded plates). Calf. Gilded, tooled spine with red lettering panel. Contains plates (some folded) and a folded map. Includes bookplates of the Marquis of Crewe.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The signature ‘Byron / Newstead Abbey 1815’ and six pages of notes are all forgeries by George de Gibler: see Sotheby sale, 12 May 1851, lot 149 (£4 4s. to Richard Monckton Milnes).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039126159707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>