[Girardin (Stanislas Xavier, Comte de)] Promenade ou Itineraire des Jardins d'Ermenonville, first edition, 25 fine etched & aquatint plates by Mérigot, tissue guards, 2 engraved plates of musical notation at end, one or two spots but an excellent clean copy, modern book-label of Jean Furstenberg, contemporary tree sheep, spine ruled in gilt with green roan label, a little rubbed and scuffed, [Cohen-de Ricci 439; Berlin Kat.3476; Hunt 695], 8vo, Paris, Mérigot, Gattey & Guyot, and Ermenonville, Murray, 1788.

⁂ Charming work with scenes of the gardens at Ermenonville created by the Marquis René de Girardin (father of the author), one of the first estates on the Continent laid out in the English landscape garden style. It was inspired by the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and is where the philosopher spent the last few weeks of his life, where he died and was buried in July 1778.