Vintage French Mini Book

Vintage Miniature French Book — Colette, Pour un Herbier

A beautifully bound miniature edition of Pour un Herbier by Colette, published by Éditions Mermod in Lausanne and printed in Switzerland. Bound in deep green with ornate gilt tooling and marbled endpapers, this finely crafted volume captures Colette’s poetic reflections on nature and botanical life.

Includes a single aquarelle by André Mamet as a frontispiece.

c. 1950s, French-language edition.

Condition: Excellent vintage condition with bright gilt, clean pages, and tight binding.

Pour un Herbier (literally For a Herbarium) isn’t a botanical manual. Colette uses pressed plants as a frame for memory, tenderness, and the passage of time—each specimen a fragment of lived experience. Considered one of her most lyrical, intimate short works, it blends close observation of nature with quiet reflections on femininity and art.