Paris, de L’imprimerie de Monsieur, 1789. xxxvi, 243 pages. Illustrated with four engraved plates by Moreau le Jeune and Joseph Vernet. Contemporary green straight-grained morocco; double silk decorative border on covers, flat spine gilt; inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Pink silk liners. First separate edition of this famous novel. One of the copies on special paper. Lacks half-title, else a fine copy with the bookplate of Jean Furstenberg. A fine copy of this important work which was first published the previous year as part of the author’s ‘Etudes de la Nature’. Gumuchian 5046.