Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de:

A VINDICATION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE; DERIVED FROM A PHILOSOPHIC AND MORAL SURVEY OF NATURE AND OF MAN. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

Worcester: J. Nancrede, 1797. Original full leather [rubbed, rebacked]. Plate frontis, 'Philocles in the Island of Samos.' Folding plate, 'Atlantic Hemisphere.' pp [2], 331, [blank], [4 publ. advts]. Text clean and Very Good.

This is the single-volume printing, ending with, 'The End,' on page 331, instead of, 'End of first volume.' We have not found any other record of the final four pages of publisher's advertisements. The work presents, as the preface states, "all that portion" of Saint-Pierre's Studies of Nature "which relates immediately to the subject of religion."
Bristol, B10094. Not in Shipton & Mooney or Evans. ESTC W36508. Item #10578

Price: $450.00