(RÉUNION). An Account of the conquest of the Island of Bourbon; with a Plan, explanatory of the military operations; and an Appendix, containing observations on the state of Population, Agriculture, Commerce, and Finance of the Island: intended as a basis for estimating its value as a territorial acquisition. By an Officer of the Expedition. London (printed for T. Egerton) 1811. 8:o. (4), (1)-116 pp. 1 engraved folding plan over St. Denis (foxed). Contemporary restored cloth, new spine with old mounted, new inner doublures and endpapers. Partly foxed. Réunion (French: La Réunion, previously Île Bourbon) is a French island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 kilometres southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island. "Réunion" was the name given to the island in 1793 by a decree of the Convention with the fall of the House of Bourbon in France, and the name commemorates the union of revolutionaries from Marseille with the National Guard in Paris, which took place on 10 August 1792. In 1801, the island was renamed "Île Bonaparte", after Napoleon Bonaparte. The island was invaded by a Royal Navy squadron led by Commodore Josias Rowley in 1810, who used the old name of "Bourbon". When it was restored to France by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the island retained the name of "Bourbon" until the fall of the restored Bourbons during the French Revolution of 1848, when the island was once again given the name "Réunion". (Wikipedia). From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
(RÉUNION). An Account of the conquest of the Island of Bourbon; with a Plan, explanatory of the military operations; and an Appendix, containing observations on the state of Population, Agriculture, Commerce, and Finance of the Island: intended as a basis for estimating its value as a territorial acquisition. By an Officer of the Expedition. London (printed for T. Egerton) 1811. 8:o. (4), (1)-116 pp. 1 engraved folding plan over St. Denis (foxed). Contemporary restored cloth, new spine with old mounted, new inner doublures and endpapers. Partly foxed. Réunion (French: La Réunion, previously Île Bourbon) is a French island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 kilometres southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island. "Réunion" was the name given to the island in 1793 by a decree of the Convention with the fall of the House of Bourbon in France, and the name commemorates the union of revolutionaries from Marseille with the National Guard in Paris, which took place on 10 August 1792. In 1801, the island was renamed "Île Bonaparte", after Napoleon Bonaparte. The island was invaded by a Royal Navy squadron led by Commodore Josias Rowley in 1810, who used the old name of "Bourbon". When it was restored to France by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the island retained the name of "Bourbon" until the fall of the restored Bourbons during the French Revolution of 1848, when the island was once again given the name "Réunion". (Wikipedia). From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
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