Cohen, 934 ; Gay, 3264.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition. <\/span>It is illustrated with 6 engraved plats including 3 after drawings by Moreau.<\/p>\n Bernardin de Saint-Pierre travelled to Mauritius as an engineer between 1768 and 1771. He had to convince the island’s governor that the primary forests and careful management of agricultural development were necessary to preserve the island’s rich soil and climate, and that the island could only develop sustainably if the environment was respected. In doing so, he founded one of the first nature conservation programmes (now known as ecosystem services). He tried in vain to seduce Fran\u00e7oise Robin, the young wife of Pierre Poivre, the first intendant of the islands of France and Bourbon. The account of his stay provides interesting observations on the geography, natural history and people of the island : “je croirai avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 utile, si le faible tableau du sort des malheureux Noirs peut leur \u00e9pargner un seul coup de fouet, et si les Europ\u00e9ens qui crient en Europe contre la tyrannie & qui font de si beaux trait\u00e9s de morale, cessent d’\u00eatre aux Indes des tyrans barbares” (avant-propos).<\/p>\n Good copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2 volumes, 8vo (190 x 118 mm) 2 nn.ll., 328 pp., 4 engraved plates, 8 folding pp. of nautical instructions between pp.100-101 for volume I; 2 nn.ll., 278 pp., 2 engraved folding plates for volume II. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt cipher ‘LCH’ at foot of spine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":74900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[552],"product_tag":[1450,1361],"class_list":{"0":"post-74907","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"product_tag-first-edition","8":"product_tag-mauritius","9":"pa_auteur-bernardin-de-saint-pierre-henri-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Henri BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Amsterdam & Paris, Merlin, 1773","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n