„What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.“
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
 
This beautiful book, is volume 20 of "Collection Complete des Oeuvres de J.-J. Rousseau" ("Complete Collection Works of J.-J. Rousseau") and was published in 1782 in Geneva. It contains the two last books of the confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the precise subtitle reads "Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire" ("Reveries of the Solitary Walker"), which was originally published between 1776-1778.
This issue is clothed in the original brown calf-leather cloth, decorated with gilt imprints and red plates on the spine; the condition is good, no wetness, but bumps and tears on the edges and the binding. The inner book is clean, beautifully decorated with marmorized start- and endpapers and text block, but a little yellowed and with a few little notes on the inside. 
 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a famous genevan writer, philosopher, componist and scientist of his time. His political views and philosophical works about the enlightenment were and are highly valued and they became important precursors for the french revolution. The Reveries of the Solitary Walker was the last of a number of works created by Rousseau towards the end of his life and were deeply autobiographical. The book is divided into ten chapters, called "walks" ("Promenades" in french). Walk 1-7 are complete and walk 8 and 9 were completed, but not revised by Rousseau, while the 10th was not completed, when he died in 1778.
The book includes different personal anecdotes from the walks of Rousseau, for example descriptions of the sights and plants of greater Paris and elaborations in fields like politics and education. 
Undoubtedly, one of the more interesting parts of the complete collection. if you are interested in the thoughts, Rousseau had, when he lived the last years of his life and what fascinated him in this time. The beauty in the moments of one of the most famous writers and philosophers of all time.