GUILLARD DE BEAURIEU (Gaspard). L'Élève de la nature, nouvelle édition augmentée d'un volume, & ornée de figures en taille-douce. I. La Solitude. - II. Society. - III. Country Pleasures. Amsterdam, et se trouve à Lille, J. B. Henry, 1771 - 1774, 3 vol. in-12, with 3 plates out of text, including a frontispiece and two plans, marbled fawn calf, smooth spines with partitions and fleurons, cherry-colored title-pieces, framed with simple cold fillet on the boards, simple gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (period binding). This is Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu's (1728-1795) most famous work, part philosophical tale, partutopia (Binding discrepancy between vol. I & II on one side, III on the other, 3 headbands trimmed, 2 upper jaws of vol. II cracked, corners damaged, light wetness to vol. II).