MAURITIUS -- Arthur Hamilton GORDON, Baron Stanmore. Mauritius Records of Private and of Public Life, Edinburgh: printed by R. & R. Clark, 1894. 2 volumes, 8° (215 x 135mm). Half titles. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). VERY RARE. The British Library copy is incomplete. This privately printed work includes dispatches, letters and other documents relating to the governorship of Mauritius. PRIDHAM, Charles. An Historical, Political and Statistical Account of Mauritius and its Dependencies , London: T. & W. Boone, 1849. 8° (220 x 140mm). Half title, 24pp. publisher's advertisements, one folding map, hand-coloured in outline. (Small tear to map.) Original purple cloth (spine faded, extremities bumped). FIRST EDITION. With 17 other works on Mauritius including The London Gazette of February 13 1811 on the capture of Mauritius, Adam Blenkinsop's A Transport Voyage to the Mauritius and back (London, 1851), John B. Kyshe's The Mauritius Almanac and Colonial Register for 1882 (Mauritius, 1882), Francis P. Flemyng's Mauritius; or, the Isle of France (London, [n.d.]), Charles John Boyle's Far Away; or, Sketches of Scenery and Society in Mauritius (London, 1867), Prince Roland Bonaparte's Le premier établissement des Néerlandais a Maurice (Paris, 1890) and Toussaint and Adolphe's Bibliograpy of Mauritius 1502-1954 (Mauritius, 1956). (20)
MAURITIUS -- Arthur Hamilton GORDON, Baron Stanmore. Mauritius Records of Private and of Public Life, Edinburgh: printed by R. & R. Clark, 1894. 2 volumes, 8° (215 x 135mm). Half titles. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). VERY RARE. The British Library copy is incomplete. This privately printed work includes dispatches, letters and other documents relating to the governorship of Mauritius. PRIDHAM, Charles. An Historical, Political and Statistical Account of Mauritius and its Dependencies , London: T. & W. Boone, 1849. 8° (220 x 140mm). Half title, 24pp. publisher's advertisements, one folding map, hand-coloured in outline. (Small tear to map.) Original purple cloth (spine faded, extremities bumped). FIRST EDITION. With 17 other works on Mauritius including The London Gazette of February 13 1811 on the capture of Mauritius, Adam Blenkinsop's A Transport Voyage to the Mauritius and back (London, 1851), John B. Kyshe's The Mauritius Almanac and Colonial Register for 1882 (Mauritius, 1882), Francis P. Flemyng's Mauritius; or, the Isle of France (London, [n.d.]), Charles John Boyle's Far Away; or, Sketches of Scenery and Society in Mauritius (London, 1867), Prince Roland Bonaparte's Le premier établissement des Néerlandais a Maurice (Paris, 1890) and Toussaint and Adolphe's Bibliograpy of Mauritius 1502-1954 (Mauritius, 1956). (20)
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